'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
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And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they l...
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Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How ta...
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So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sec...
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Synods are mystical Bear-gardens.
Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,
And other Members of...
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'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
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For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like...
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Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
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Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Tho...
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He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.
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Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
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Deep sighted in intelligence,
Ideas, atoms, influences.
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He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
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But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no m...
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Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of stat...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
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He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay fo...
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The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
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The trenchant blade Toledo trusty.
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself f...
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
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A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like
a turnip. There is nothing good ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd
The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:
And some,...
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The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
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At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
...
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God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I dou...
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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick
(Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
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Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
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Like feather-bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
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And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
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Authority is never without hate.
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He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser star...
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Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
...
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I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
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He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fo...
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Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
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Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
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Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
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While I deduce,
From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,
The symphony of spring.
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Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
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Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
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Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
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For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
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For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words.
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He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and div...
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The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
Through thick and thin.
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Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal powe...
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
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H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
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'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' ...
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Look before you ere you leap.
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This was the penn'worth of his thought.
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'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in an...
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As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?--
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which wa...
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For his religion, it was fit
To match his learning and his wit;
'Twas Presbyterian true blue;
...
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Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.
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Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis alw...
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Fear is an ague, that forsakes
And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;
And they'll opine the...
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And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,
The length of breeches a...
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So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
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He that is down can fall no lower.
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So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
Th...
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Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.
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Of evening tinct,
The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
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He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.
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The oyster-women lock'd their fish up,
And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
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Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
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Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through...
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As you sow y' are like to reap.
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Invite the rook who high amid the boughs,
In early spring, his airy city builds,
And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1) ![]()
The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods,
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,
In joyles...
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The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;
And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool
Prel...
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Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A...
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Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1) ![]()
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
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And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
...
JAMES THOMSON 1 A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
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O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And...
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He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no;
That would, as soon as e'er she...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight
(Mysterious veil,...
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He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
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'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
For where your case ...
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Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
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'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allo...
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The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lus...
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For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
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With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false o...
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Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) There is nothing new under the sun.
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For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonse...
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Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours,
Of winter's past or coming void of care,
Well p...
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Linnets . . . sit
On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
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A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
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Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more di...
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For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
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Up springs the lark,
Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;
Ere yet the shadows fly, ...
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Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas,
That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,
At once ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Beautiful isle of the sea,
Smile on the brow of the waters.
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Think, oh, grateful think!
How good the God of Harvest is to you;
Who pours abundance o'er you...
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And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
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Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
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Unconscious humor.
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If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
...
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As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosop...
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
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Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabb...
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As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
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Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
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The stately-sailing swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;
And, arching proud his neck,...
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When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
The sw...
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The swallow sweeps
The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
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Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take...
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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.
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At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven,
The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,
A...
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Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
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This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
A grisly meteor on his face.
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Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames;
Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt
In Tw...
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With vollies of eternal babble.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
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You have a wrong sow by the ear.
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Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the...
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She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it,
As being loth to wear it out,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
JAMES THOMSON (1) ![]()
Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
For nothing human foreign was to him.
JAMES THOMSON (1) ![]()
Honor is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
And still be doing, never done.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
I loved no King since Forty One
When Prelacy went down,
A Cloak and Band I then put on,
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
Whatever I can say or do.
I'm sure not much avails;
I shall still Vicar be of Bray,
Whic...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
I dare be bold, you're one of those
Have took the covenant,
With cavaliers are cavaliers
...
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Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times sha...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
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Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is...
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For discords make the sweetest airs.
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Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers h...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) ![]()
The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
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Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
For by his side a pouch he wore,
Replete with strange hermet...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Oh Ignorance
Thou art fall'n man's best friend!
WILLIAM WATSON 1 And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal str...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. 
In a cottage I live, and the cot of content,
Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,
Ar... 
Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they l... 
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How ta... 
So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sec... 
Synods are mystical Bear-gardens.
Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,
And other Members of... 
'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. 
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Tho... 
At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
... 
God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I dou... 