From Peer or Bishop 'tis no easy thing
To draw the man who loves his God, or King:
Alas!
(Epistle II: To A Lady (of The Characters Of Women))
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O happiness our being's end and aim Good, pleasure, ease, content whate'er thy name That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Shakespeare . . . For gain not glory, winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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