"The Ariosto of the North."

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"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

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"He rush'd into the field, and foremost fighting fell."

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"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice."

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"The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use."

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"Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well."

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"On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar."

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"The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,--too many, yet how few!"

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"The Niobe of nations! there she stands."

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"The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle."

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"There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell."

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"Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power."

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"Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were."

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"The poetry of speech."

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"They never fail who die In a great cause."

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"Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth."

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"He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown."

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"Yet in my lineaments they trace Some features of my father's face."

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"I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture."

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"The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture."

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"My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea; But before I go, Tom Moore, Here 's a double health to thee!"

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"Her stature tall,--I hate a dumpy woman."

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"So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart."

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"I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail."

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"She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife."

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"I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

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"He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him."

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"My native land, good night!"

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"Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal."

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"What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper."

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"Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best."

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"It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word."

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"For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager."

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"Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer."

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"Heaven gives its favourites--early death."

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"And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on."

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"Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan."

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"By all that 's good and glorious."

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"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore."

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"In my hot youth, when George the Third was king."

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"Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow."

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"The careful pilot of my proper woe."

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"But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?"

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"Shrine of the mighty! can it be That this is all remains of thee?"

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"Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind."

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"Oh, Amos Cottle! Phoebus! what a name!"

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"The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name."

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"Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,-- Not for thy faults, but mine."

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"Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground."

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"Hark! to the hurried question of despair: "Where is my child?"--an echo answers, "Where?""

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