"Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found."

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"'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild."

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"Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired."

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"In hollow murmurs died away."

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"When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung."

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"Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed, Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead."

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"Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art."

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"In notes by distance made more sweet."

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"By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!"

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"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."

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"In yonder grave a Druid lies."

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"How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd!"

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"O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!"

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"Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell."

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"Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days."

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"If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me."

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"By magic numbers and persuasive sound."

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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

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"I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar."

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"For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds."

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"Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure."

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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

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"Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude."

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"Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise."

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"Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene."

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"Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours."

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"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!"

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"Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,-- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew."

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"Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwink'd."

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"Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry,-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry."

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"With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!"

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"I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume."

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"And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees."

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"She that asks Her dear five hundred friends."

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"The son of parents pass'd into the skies."

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"Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away."

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"The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown."

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"Is base in kind, and born to be a slave."

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"Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill."

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"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."

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"I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no."

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"That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind."

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"But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost."

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"Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark."

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"From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up."

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"What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?"

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"Gloriously drunk, obey the important call."

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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

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"An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands."

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"The beggarly last doit."

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