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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 41.

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He trudg’d along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 84.

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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 107.

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Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 133.

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She hugg’d the offender, and forgave the offence:
Sex to the last. 1

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 367.

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And raw in fields the rude militia swarms,
Mouths without hands; maintain’d at vast expense,
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence;
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,
And ever but in times of need at hand.

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 400.

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Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk,—the business of the day.

Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 407.

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Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. 2

The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75.

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    Happy the man, and happy he alone,
  He who can call to-day his own;
  He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d to-day. 3

Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 65.

Note 1.
And love the offender, yet detest the offence.—Alexander Pope: Eloisa to Abelard, line 192. [back]

Note 2.
Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d’une voix légère,
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au sévère.
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux: L’Art Poétique, chant 1er.

Formed by thy converse, happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 379. [back]

Note 3.
Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me; I have dined to-day.
Sydney Smith: Recipe for Salad. [back]

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