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Line 283.
For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.
_Winter_. Line 393.
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
_Hymn_. Line 25.
Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade.
Line 114.
From seeming evil still educing good.
Line 118.
Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.
_Castle of Indolence_. Canto i. St. 69.
A little round, fat, oily man of G.o.d.
_Alfred_. Act ii. Sc. 5.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
_Song, "Forever, Fortune."_
Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love; And, when we meet a mutual heart, Step rudely in, and bid us part?
_Sophonisba_. Act iii. Sc. 2.
O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O![18]
[Note 18: This line was altered, after the second edition, to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."]
JOHN DYER.
1700-1758.
_Grongar Hill_. Line 163.
Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view.
Line 123.
As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, Which to those who journey near Barren, brown, and rough appear.
PHILIP DODDRIDGE.
1702-1751.
_Epigram on his Family Arms_.
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to G.o.d each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views let both united be; I live in pleasure, when I live to thee.
ROBERT DODSLEY 1703-1764.
_The Parting Kiss_.
