Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, that host on the morrow lay withered and strewn.
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England if false, England was unfit for me.George Gordon Byron
We learn from Horace, 'Homer sometimes sleeps' We feel without him, Wordsworth sometimes wakes.
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Hereditary bondsmen know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
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Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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