"Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed."

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"Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity."

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"Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay."

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"Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not."

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"Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb."

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"Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie."

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"Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!"

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"Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out."

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"O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!"

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"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love."

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"If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?"

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"[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over."

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"If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?"

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"Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?"

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"To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

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"And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?"

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"A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew."

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"If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight."

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"When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield."

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"Still are the thoughts to memory dear."

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"Where 's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?"

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"I was not always a man of woe."

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"In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven."

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"And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace Of finer form or lovelier face."

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"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."

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""Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion."

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"When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone."

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"Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star."

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"Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade."

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"But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men."

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"Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever!"

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"Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain."

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"O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!"

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"Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men."

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"Along thy wild and willow'd shore."

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"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

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"Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies."

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"In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand."

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"Oh for a blast of that dread horn On Fontarabian echoes borne!"

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"Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!"

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"In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying."

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"Time rolls his ceaseless course."

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"Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!"

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"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me."

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"A mother's pride, a father's joy."

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"With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye."

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"Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil nor night of waking."

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"Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!"

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"'T is an old tale and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me."

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"The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears."

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