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"May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats."
"Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning."
"Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come."
"My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!"
"Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears."
"There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave."
"Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow."
"Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence."
"Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms."
"No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving."
"So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!"
"So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart."
"Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!"
"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
"He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."
"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."
"He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery."
"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."
"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
"He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?"