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Thomas Parnell. (1679–1718) (continued)

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Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris. 1

Barton Booth. (1681–1733)

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True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun. 2

Song.

Edward Young. (1683–1765)

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Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 1.

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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 18.

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Creation sleeps! ’T is as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,—
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 23.

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The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 55.

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Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 67.

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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 154.

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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?
Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 212.

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Be wise to-day; ’t is madness to defer. 3

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 390.

Note 1.
Written in the time of Julius Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus:

Cras amet qui numquam amavit;
Quique amavit, cras amet
(Let him love to-morrow who never loved before; and he as well who has loved, let him love to-morrow). [back]

Note 2.
See Butler, Quotation 66. [back]

Note 3.
See Congreve, Quotation 10. [back]

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