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- Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?…
- Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
- We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
- Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
- And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
- How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set…
- Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries…
- I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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