"Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won. Tho' nations may combat, and war's thunders rattle, No more on thy steed wilt thou sweep o'er the plain: Thou sleep'st thy last sleep, thou hast fought thy last battle, No sound can awake thee to glory again."

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"And out of mind as soon as out of sight."

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"O wearisome condition of humanity!"

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"Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array."

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"In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box."

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"Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky."

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"With just enough of learning to misquote."

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"When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years."

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"I only know we loved in vain; I only feel--farewell! farewell!"

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"'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in 't."

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"As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that 's false, before You trust in critics."

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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

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"Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."

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"'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home; 'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come."

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"For freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won."

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"By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there."

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"The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns."

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"Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,--howe'er We promise, hope, believe,--there breathes despair."

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"Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity."

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"That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth."

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"Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound."

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"But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."

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"Sweet is revenge--especially to women."

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"She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all."

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"She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire."

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"Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart."

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"Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year."

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"Were 't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell 'T is to thee that I would drink."

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"There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake."

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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

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"The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine."

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"Lord of himself,--that heritage of woe!"

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"His heart was one of those which most enamour us,-- Wax to receive, and marble to retain."

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"Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred."

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"Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert."

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"I loved my country, and I hated him."

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"In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell."

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"The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse."

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"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust."

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"Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!"

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"He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."

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"Land of lost gods and godlike men."

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"Brave men were living before Agamemnon."

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"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul."

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"O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days."

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"My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!"

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"And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own; And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame."

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"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."

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"And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him."

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"I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd."

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