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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)
Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Why does Antony dream out his hours,
And tempts not fortune for a noble day?
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine,
They threaten every fortune mixt with mine.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)