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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
Great wits are sure to madness near alli'd.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
Threnodia Augustalis (1685)
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Astraea Redux (1660)
Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
How dull, and how insensible a beast
Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest.
In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Kindness by secret sympathy is tied;
For noble souls in nature are allied.
Aureng-Zebe: A Tragedy (1675)
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Fortune, that with malicious joy
Does man her slave oppress,
Proud of her office to destroy,
Is seldom pleas'd to bless.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
All for Love (1678)
These look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
Don Sebastian (1690)
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.