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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Duke of Buckinghamshire Sheffield. (1649–1720) (continued)

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

Essay on Poetry.

Thomas Otway. (1652–1685)

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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,—
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1.

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Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee. 1

Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 1.

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And die with decency.

Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 3.

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What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! 2

The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1.

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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. 3

The Orphan. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Note 1.
See Shakespeare, page 112.
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
Thomas Gray: The Bard, part i. stanza 3. [back]

Note 2.
O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.
Alexander Pope: Homer’s Odyssey, book xi. line 531. [back]

Note 3.
Let us swear an eternal friendship.—J. Hookham Frere: The Rovers, act i. sc. 1. [back]

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