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Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686)
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Epistle to Congreve (1693)
Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.
According to her cloth she cut her coat.
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
A man so various, that he seem’d to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.