"From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent."

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"Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain."

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"But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run."

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"Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"

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"And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale."

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"He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay."

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"Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eyes by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild."

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"So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky."

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"I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."

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"Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair."

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"As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye."

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"Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day."

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"I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year."

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"Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?"

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"The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain)."

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"O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly."

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"Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her."

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"Where more is meant than meets the ear."

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"Hide me from day's garish eye."

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"For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè."

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"Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize."

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"Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."

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"Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument."

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"No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around."

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"He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem."

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"Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages."

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"A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him."

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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

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"The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground."

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"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

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"Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait."

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"And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure."

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"To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new."

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"But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night."

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"When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves With minute drops from off the eaves."

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"To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair."

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"Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail."

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"But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!"

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"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself."

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"Of which all Europe rings from side to side."

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"Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea."

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"Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law."

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"Under the shady roof Of branching elm star-proof."

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"By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."

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"Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold."

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"To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade."

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"Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony."

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"Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine."

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"What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?"

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"Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men."

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