1698-1743.

The Bastard. Line 7.

He lives to build, not boast a generous race:
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

JAMES THOMSON.

1700-1748.

THE SEASONS.

Spring. Line 283.

Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Line 465.

But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Line 1149.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,—
To teach the young idea how to shoot,—

Line 1158.

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
Ease and alternate labor, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

Summer. Line 1188.

Sighed and looked unutterable things.

Line 1285.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

Line 1346.

So stands the statue that enchants the world.

Autumn. Line 204.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned, adorned the most.

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 God.

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.

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