"Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian ground."

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"Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd."

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"Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords."

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"Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend."

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"The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair."

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"Short is my date, but deathless my renown."

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"Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all."

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"The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost."

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"Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before."

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"He best can paint them who shall feel them most."

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"O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair."

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"Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind."

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"E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm."

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"In death a hero, as in life a friend!"

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"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."

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"Above all Greek, above all Roman fame."

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"Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?"

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"The lot of man,--to suffer and to die."

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"I live an idle burden to the ground."

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"Content to follow when we lead the way."

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"I war not with the dead."

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"Then marble soften'd into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form."

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"Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave."

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"See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll, Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul."

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"And for our country 't is a bliss to die."

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"Tell me, my soul, can this be death?"

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"The people's parent, he protected all."

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"The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart."

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"One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines."

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"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

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"Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe."

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"The right divine of kings to govern wrong."

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"I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

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"Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!"

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"The big round tear stands trembling in her eye."

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"Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,-- For thee, that ever felt another's woe!"

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"When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn."

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"The best of things beyond their measure cloy."

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"Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine."

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"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know."

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"These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!"

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"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."

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"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old."

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"The mildest manners with the bravest mind."

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"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!"

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"Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me."

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"Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."

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"One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight."

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"Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness."

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"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."

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