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And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
Britannia Rediviva (1688)
And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,
Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
Œdipus (1679)
'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
Aureng-Zebe (1676)
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
The Satires of Juvenal and Persius (1693)
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.
There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Love is a passion
Which kindles honor into noble acts.
His hair just grizzled,
As in a green old age.
Œdipus (1679)
And doomed to death, though fated not to die.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
All empire is no more than power in trust.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
And all to leave, what with his toil he won
To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
The Conquest of Granada (1669)
Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
The Art of Poetry (1683)
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
The Conquest of Granada (1669)
What precious drops are those
Which silently each other's track pursue,
Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
The Conquest of Granada (1669)
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)