"Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones."

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"There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion."

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"He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace!"

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"And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful That God alone was to be seen in heaven."

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"O God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood."

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"But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar."

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"The sky is changed,--and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder."

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"The many still must labour for the one."

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"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee."

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"O Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land."

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"Adieu! adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue."

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"If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men."

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"Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been,-- A sound which makes us linger; yet--farewell!"

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"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."

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"Battle's magnificently stern array."

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"I had a dream which was not all a dream."

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"And both were young, and one was beautiful."

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"Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy."

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"And whispering, "I will ne'er consent,"--consented."

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"The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold."

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"O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey."

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"Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave."

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"Who track the steps of glory to the grave."

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"Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest."

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""While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the world.""

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"The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."

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"None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear."

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"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse,--borne away with every breath!"

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"Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base."

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"Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast."

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"Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!"

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"He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below."

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"There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!"

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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more."

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"O Rome! my country! city of the soul!"

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"Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar!"

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"And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away.""

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"Might shake the saintship of an anchorite."

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"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'T is woman's whole existence."

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"Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!"

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"War, war is still the cry,--"war even to the knife!""

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"Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto."

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"Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."

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"Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."

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"Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?"

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"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider."

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"Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?"

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"Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one."

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"Besides, they always smell of bread and butter."

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"Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did."

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