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Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;
Their congress in the field great Jove withstands:
Both doom’d to fall, but fall by greater hands.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Prudence, thou vainly in our youth art sought,
And with age purchased, art too dearly bought:
We’re past the use of wit for which we toil:
Late fruit, and planted in too cold a soil.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread
Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head?
Is this the all observing age could gain?
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Quintius here was born,
Whose shining ploughshare was in furrows worn,
Met by his trembling wife, returning home,
And rustically joy’d, as chief of Rome.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Your hay it is mow’d, and your corn it is reap’d;
Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap’d;
Come, my boys, come,
Come, my boys, come,
And merrily roar out harvest-home.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
From a mean stock the pious Decii came;
Yet such their virtues, that their loss alone
For Rome and all our regions did atone.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Your Ben and Fletcher, in their first young flight,
Did no Volpone, nor no Arbaces write;
But hopp’d about, and short excursions made
From bough to bough, as if they were afraid.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
When he knew his rival freed and gone,
He swells with wrath; he makes outrageous moan:
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground,
The hollow tow’r with clamours rings around.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Winds murmur’d through the leaves your short delay,
And fountains o’er their pebbles chid your stay:
But, with your presence cheer’d, they cease to mourn,
And walks wear fresher green at your return.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
When the fiery suns too fiercely play,
And shriyell’d herbs on with’ring stems decay,
The wary ploughman, on the mountain’s brow,
Undams his wat’ry stores; huge torrents flow;
Temp’ring the thirsty fever of the field.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
The soldier then in Grecian arts unskill’d,
Returning rich with plunder from the field,
If cups of silver or of gold he brought
With jewels set, and exquisitely wrought,
To glorious trappings strait the plate he turn’d,
And with the glitt’ring spoil his horse adorn’d.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Horace, with sly insinuating grace,
Laugh’d at his friend, and look’d him in the face;
Would raise a blush where secret vice he found,
And tickle while he gently probed the wound;
With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled,
But made the desperate passes when he smiled.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow’d long;
Even wonder’d at, because he dropt no sooner.
Fate seem’d to wind him up for fourscore years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more:
Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Where the tender rinds of trees disclose
Their shooting germs, a swelling knot there grows;
Just in that place a narrow slit we make,
Then other buds from bearing trees we take;
Inserted thus, the wounded rind we close.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
She took the coleworts which her husband got
From his own ground (a small well-water’d spot);
She stripp’d the stalks of all their leaves; the best
She cull’d, and then with handy care she dress’d.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Th’ illiterate writer, empiric-like, applies
To minds diseased unsafe chance remedies:
The learn’d in schools, where knowledge first began,
Studies with care th’ anatomy of man;
Sees virtue, vice, and passions in their cause,
And fame from science, not from fortune, draws.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Obscure! why prythee what am I? I know
My father, grandsire, and great grandsire too:
If farther I derive my pedigree,
I can but guess beyond the fourth degree.
The rest of my forgotten ancestors
Were sons of earth.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)