The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.
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Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.Thomas Gray
'Tis folly to be wise.
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One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree Another came nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.
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Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
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