Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Enthusiasm.= Rash enthusiasm, in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety. 619 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., Line 35. =Envy.= Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise. 620 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 621 POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 266. Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 622 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 284. =Epitaphs.= |
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