Date: 1678
"Dares afraid his reasons house / (Though he had scarce so much as goose) / About his batter'd ears should tumble"
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Date: 1678
"He lik't not banging sans defeizance. / While t'other labors all he can / To make a window to his brain."
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Date: 1785
"This is the case of many a beau / Who gives up all for glare and show. / Outside and front all fine and burnish'd, / But the inner rooms are thinly furnish'd."
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Date: 1872
"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...
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