Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. i., Line 25.
And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. 431 JOHN BROWN: _An Essay on Satire._ =Cradle.= Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. 432 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 408. =Craftiness.= That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 433 BRET HARTE: _Plain Language from Truthful James._ =Creation.= Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,-- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. 434 |
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