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Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

Monody on the Death of Sheridan.

Line 68.

Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.

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And both were young, and one was beautiful.

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The ocean to the river of his thoughts,2

Which terminated all.

St. 2.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

St. 3.

1 Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa.

Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Canto x. St. 80. The idea that Nature lost the perfect mould has been a favorite one with all song writers and poets, and is found in the literature of all European nations.— Book of English Songs, p. 28.

2 She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

Longfellow, The Spanish Student. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Si che chiaro

Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.

Dante, Purg. Canto 13. 89.

And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.
The Dream. St. 4.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it

takes away.

Stanzas for Music.

There's not a joy.

I had a dream which was not all a dream.

My boat is on the shore,

Darkness.

And my bark is on the sea.

To Thomas Moore.

Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,

Here's a heart for every fate.

Were't the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd upon the brink,

Ere my fainting spirit fell,

Ibid.

'Tis to thee that I would drink.

Ibid.

So we'll go no more a roving

So late into the night.

So we'll go.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago.

On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,

With a diadem of snow.

Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1.

The heart ran o'er

With silent worship of the great of old!

The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

Manfred. Act. iii. Sc. 4.

For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.

Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto

Beppo. St. 27.

Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

St. 32.

His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain.1

St. 34

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

That soft bastard Latin

St. 39.

Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. St. 44.

Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

St. 45.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days!

And if we do but watch the hour,

There never yet was human power

St. 80.

1 For her heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain whatever impression she shall make upon it. - Cervantes, La Gitanilla.

Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.

They never fail who die

In a great cause.

Mazeppa. x.

Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Whose game was empires, and whose stakes

were thrones,

Whose table earth

whose dice were human

bones.

The Age of Bronze. St. 3.

I loved my country, and I hated him.

The Vision of Judgment. lxxxiii.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west

Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. The Island. Canto ii. St. 19.

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,

When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ;
Like other charmers, wooing the caress

More dazzlingly when daring in full dress
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties - Give me a cigar!

My days are in the yellow leaf;

s;

Canto ii. St. 19.

The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief

Are mine alone! On my Thirty-sixth Year.

In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!

Don Juan. Canto i. St. 17.

But-oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual !

Inform us truly have they not hen-pecked you all? Don Juan. Canto ì. St. 22.

The languages, especially the dead,

The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said

To be the most remote from common use. Canto i. St. 40.

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'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near

home;

'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Canto i. St. 123.

Sweet is revenge—especially to women.

Canto i. St. 124.

And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away.”

Canto i. St. 141.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.

Canto i. St. 194.

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