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| When thou wilt swim in that live bath, each fish, which every channel hath, will amorously to thee swim. Gladder to catch thee, then thou him. |
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| Batter my hear, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend; |
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John Donne
"Holy Sonnet #10" |
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| Farewell (sweet Cooke-ham) where I first obtained Grace from that grace where perfect grace remained. |
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Lanyer
"Description of Cooke-ham" |
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| COme live wiht me and be my love, and we weill all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods, or steep mountain yields. |
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Marlowe
"The Passionate Shepherd to his love" |
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| Now, Penshurst, they that will proportion thee With other edifices, when they see Those proud, ambitious heaps, and nothing else, May say, their lords have built, but they lord dwells. |
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| But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild At every word, Methoughts I heard one calling, Child! And I replied, My Lord. |
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| So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. |
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| Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more Till he became Most poor: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously. |
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| Mark but this flea, and mark in this, how little that which thou deniest me is; me it sucked first, and now it sucks thee, and in this flea our two bloods mingled be; |
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| The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. |
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| If all the world and love were young, and truth in every shepherds tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move to live wth thee and by thy love. |
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Walter Raleigh
"Response to The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impeidemtns. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempest and is never shaken |
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| Our mother eve who tasted of the tree, giving to adam what she held most dear, was simply good, and had no power to see; the after-coming harm did not appear: The subtle serpent that our sex betrayed before our fall so sure a plot had laid. |
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Lanyer
"Pilot's wife's Reply to Eve" |
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| Prayer, the church's banquet; angels' age, God's breath in man returning to his birth; |
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| But if [the stag] can descry some nobler foe's approach, to him he calls and begs fate, and then contented falls; So when the king a mortal shaft let fly From his enerring hand, then glad to die, Proud of the wound, to it resigns his blood And stains the crystal with a purple flood. |
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John Denham
"Coopers Hill" |
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| The ordinary course of this paper having been interupted by a sad and lamentable accident of fire lately happened in the city of london, it hath been thought fit for satisfying the minds of so many of His Majesty's good subjects, who must needs be concerned for the issue of so great an accident, to give this short but true account of it. |
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| All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article for White's Chocolate House; poetry, under that of Will's Coffeehouse; learning under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. Jame's Coffeehouse ; and what else I have to offer on any other subject, shall be dated from my own apartment |
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Richard Steele
"Tatler No. 1" |
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| Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of an husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; |
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Joseph Addison
"Spectator No. 1" |
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| As proof of my sincerity, I shall in the first place assure him that for my own part I never was a beauty, and am now very far from being young (a confesion he will find few of my sex ready to make). I shall also acknowledge that I have run through as many scenes of vanity and folly as the greatest coquette of them all. |
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Joseph Addison
"Female Spectator" |
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| Upon his comein up to me , I was going to inquire into his present circumstance; but was prevented by his asking me, wiht a whisper, whether the last letters brought any accounts that one might rely upon from Bender? I told himm none that I heard of; and asked him , whether he had yet married his eldest daughter? |
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Joseph Addison
"Tatler No. 155" |
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| Such "inclusion" entailed obvious control. If the periodicals took up women's questions, they almost invariably supplied men's answers (even the ladies' titles were mostly run by men). Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator, written not only for women but by a women, offered something different. |
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| "Women and Men, Manners and Marriage" |
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| The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reconed one million ans a half, of these I calculated there may be about two hundred thousand couple whos wives are breeders, from which number I subtracted thirty thousand couplee who are able to maintian thier onw childrenn, although I apprehend there cannot be so many under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand |
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Jonathan Swift
"A Modest Proposal" |
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| 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alikem yet each believes his own. In poets as true genuis is but rare, true tatse as seflom is the critic's share; Both must alike from Heav'n derived their lgiht, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, and censure freely who have written well. |
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Alexander Pope
"An Essay on Criticism" |
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| When first young Maro in his boundless mind a work t' outlast imortal Rome designed, perhaps he seemed above his critics law, and but form Nature's fountians scorned to draw: but when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer, were, he found, the same: Convinced, amazed he checks the bold design, and rules as strickt his labored work confine, As if the stagyrite o'erlooked each line. |
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Alexander Pope
"An Essay on Criticism" |
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| But soon by impious arms from Latium chased, Theri ancient bounds the banished Muses passed; Thence arts o'er all the northern world advance; But critic learning from flourished most in France. The rulse, a nation tborn to serve, obeys, and Boileau still in right of Horace sways. But we brace Britons, foreign laws despised, And kept unconquered, and uncivilized, Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, |
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Alexander Pope
"An Essay on Criticism" |
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| I know how disagreeable it is to make use of hard words before a lady; but 'tis so much the concern of a poet to have his works understood and particularly by your sex, that you must give me leave to explain tow or three difficult terms. |
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Alexander Pope
"Rape of the Lock" |
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| Belinda still her downy pillow pressed, Her guardian Sylph prolonged the balmy rest. 'Twas he had summoned to her silent bed the morning dream that hovered o'er her head. |
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Alexander Pope
"The Rape of the Lock" |
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| Straight the three bands prepare in arms to join, Each band the number of the Sacred Nine. Soon as she spread he hand, th'aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card: First Ariel perched upon a Matador, |
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Alexander Pope
"The Rape of the Lock" |
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| Two handmaids wat the throne: alike in place, but diff'ring far in figure and in face. Here stood Ill-Nature like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed; with store of prayers, for mornings, nights, and noons, Her hand is filled; her bosom with lampoons. |
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Alexander Pope
"The Rape of the Lock" |
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| For, after all the murders of your eye, when , after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, and all those tresses shall be laid in dust; The lock, the Muse shall concentrate to fame, And midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name! |
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Alexander Pope
"The Rape of the Lock" |
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| But fear of not being approved as just copiers of human manners, is not the most important concern that an author of this sort ought to have before him. These books are written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idel, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and ontroduction into life. They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily following the... |
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Samuel Johnson
"Rambler No. 4" |
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| Those whom sorrow incapacitae to enjoy the pleasures of contemplation, may prperly apply to such diversion, provided they are innocent, as lay strong hold on the attention; and those, whom fear of any future affliction chains down to misery, must endeavor to obviate the danger. |
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Samuel Johnson
Rambler No. 5 |
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| These are the true and open votaries of idleness, for whom she weaves the garlands of popooies and into whose cup she pours the waters of oblivion; who exist in a stae of unruffled stupidity , forgetting and forgotten; who have long ceased to live, and at whose death the survivors can only say, that they have ceased to breathe. |
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Samuel Johnson
"Idler No. 31" |
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