“Then let him swear he ne'er the lady knew,
And did with her as men with women do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIX
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
“But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page
Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;
Chill Penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.”
St. 13 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
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“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”
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Stanza 45.
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