Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.Lord Byron
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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Comus all allows Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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With death doomed to grapple, Beneath this cold slab, he Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the Abbey.
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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