When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
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They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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What cities, as great as this, have ... promised themselves immortality Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others.... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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