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The cup goes round:

And who so artful as to put it by!

'Tis long since Death had the majority.

The Grave. Part ii. Line 449.

The good he scorn'd

Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,

Not to return; or if it did, in visits

Like those of angels, short and far between.1

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Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.

The Seasons. Spring. Line 1,

Base Envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

But who can paint

Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?

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Summer. Line 47.

But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.

1 See Norris, page 281.

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Ships dim-discover'd dropping from the clouds.

The Seasons. Summer. Line 946

And Mecca saddens at the long delay.

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For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.

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Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things.

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A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

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So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.
Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.
Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.
Loveliness

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Autumn. Line 2.

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.1
He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.'

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

There studious let me sit,

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Winter. Line 1.

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And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.

1 See Milton, page 234.

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Nam ut mulieres esse dicuntur nonnullæ inornatæ, quas id ipsum diceat, sic hæc subtilis oratio etiam incompta delectat (For as lack of adornment is said to become some women; so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight). — CICERO: Orator, 23, 78.

2 O Winter, ruler of the inverted year. - CowPER: The Task, book in Winter Evening, line 34.

These as they change, Almighty Father! these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee.

Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade.

From seeming evil still educing good.

Hymn. Line 1.

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Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. Line 118.

A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was,

Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
Forever flushing round a summer sky:
There eke the soft delights that witchingly
Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,
And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh;
But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest
Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest.

The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6.

O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.

Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.

Scoundrel maxim.

A bard here dwelt,

more fat than bard beseems.

A little round, fat, oily man of God.

I care not, Fortune, what you me deny :
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky

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Stanza 30.

Ibid.

Stanza 68.

Stanza 69.

Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.

Canto ii. Stanza 3

Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.

The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 55,

Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love;
And when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?

Whoe'er amidst the sons

Song.

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When Britain first, at Heaven's command,

Arose from out the azure main,

This was the charter of her land,

And guardian angels sung the strain:

Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves.

Alfred. Act ii. Sc. &

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Trembling all precipitate down dash'd,

Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.

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The Ruins of Rome. Line 40.

1 The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."

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Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views, let both united be:
I live in pleasure when I live to thee.

Epigram on his Family Arms.1

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,

And press with vigour on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,

And an immortal crown.

Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race.

JOHN WESLEY.

1703-1791.

That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called

a Slave Trade.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin.

indeed next to godliness.

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Journal. Feb. 12, 1772.

"Cleanliness is

Sermon xciii. On Dress.

I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.3

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.5

Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

1 Dum vivimus vivamus (Let us live while we live). — ORTON: Life of

Doddridge.

2 See Bacon, page 170.

- a line attributed to Turgot,

Given as a saying of Wesley, in the "Saturday Review," Nov. 28, 1874. Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis (He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants), and inscribed on Houdon's bust of Franklin. Frederick von der Trenck asserted on his trial, 1794, that he was the author of this line.

5 This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs

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