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Hot philosophers Stood banding factions, all so strongly propt; I staggered, knew not which was firmer part, But thought, quoted, read, observed, and pried,

Measure your mind's height by the shade it Stufft noting-books: and still my spaniel slept.

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At length he waked, and yawned; and by yon sky
For aught I know, he knew as much as I.
A Scholar and his Dog.

J. MARSTON.

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In discourse more sweet,

(For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,!
Others apart sat on a hill retired,
In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Of good and evil much they argued then,
Of happiness and final misery,
Passion and apathy, and glory and shame;
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Paradise Lost, Book ii.

MILTON.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through nature up to nature's God.

And knows where faith, law, morals, all began,
All end, in love of God and love of man.
Essay on Man, Epistle IV.

MUSIC.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

And proved it 't was no matter what he said. The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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POPE.

That strain again — it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing, and giving odor.

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In mouths of wisest censure.

Othello, Act ii. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

It deserves with characters of brass

Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All comers of the world.

Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. 4.

REPUTATION,

SHAKESPEARE.

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And razure of oblivion.

Measure for Measure, Act v. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

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Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt
In the despatch; I knew a man whose loss
Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose.

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