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91.
Greatness is but the shadow of the beams
First Line:
Greatness is but the shadow of the beams
Last Line:
Work near enough to set itself on fire
Author:
Sir John Suckling (Absolute)
DMI number:
14979
92.
Greatness most envied when least understood
First Line:
Greatness most envied when least understood
Last Line:
To be more wretched than the vulgar can
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
18992
93.
Greatness the earnest of malicious fate
First Line:
Greatness the earnest of malicious fate
Last Line:
Till time had quenched both life and love together
Author:
Thomas Southerne (Absolute)
DMI number:
19936
94.
Had I been born a servant my low life
First Line:
Had I been born a servant my low life
Last Line:
When the tall oaks are rent up by the roots
Author:
Thomas Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:
16476
95.
He's Sisyphus that strives with mighty pain
First Line:
He's Sisyphus that strives with mighty pain
Last Line:
The stone recoils and backwards waddles Will
DMI number:
18328
96.
He is at no end of his actions blest
First Line:
He is at no end of his actions blest
Last Line:
With torrents crowned are men with diadems
Author:
George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:
13453
97.
He that would great in science grow
First Line:
He that would great in science grow
Last Line:
Leaving both common souls and common clay
Author:
Walter Titley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27843
98.
He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare
First Line:
He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare
Last Line:
Or die or live a slave without redemption
Author:
John Ford (Absolute)
DMI number:
17309
99.
He who would great in science grow
First Line:
He who would great in science grow
Last Line:
Leaving both common souls and common clay
Author:
Walter Titley (Absolute)
DMI number:
3186
100.
Hence with thy furies fire eyed god of war
First Line:
Hence with thy furies fire eyed god of war
Last Line:
But union bless each distant state
DMI number:
27538
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