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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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God shall be all in all.

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Forget thyself to marble.

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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