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261.
Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour
First Line:
Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour
Last Line:
How long or short let us resign to heaven
Author:
Thomas Edwards (Absolute)
DMI number:
23519
262.
With glory satiate from the bustling stage
First Line:
With glory satiate from the bustling stage
Last Line:
If I repent I'll come again and please you
Author:
Horace Walpole (Absolute)
DMI number:
38455
263.
Why should we that ambition call
First Line:
Why should we that ambition call
Last Line:
To gain a friend where there is none
DMI number:
23759
264.
Why look you sad
First Line:
Why look you sad
Last Line:
And grapple with him ere he comes to nigh
DMI number:
40837
265.
Why man he doth bestride the narrow world
First Line:
Why man he doth bestride the narrow world
Last Line:
That her wide walls encompassed but one man
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37385
266.
Woe to the worldly men whose covetous
First Line:
Woe to the worldly men whose covetous
Last Line:
Unneighboured as unblessed within the land
Author:
Henry King (Absolute)
DMI number:
16670
267.
Yes you condemn those sages too refined
First Line:
Yes you condemn those sages too refined
Last Line:
And form the whole with fairest symmetry
Author:
William Melmoth (Absolute)
DMI number:
22223
268.
Ye vain desist from your erroneous strife
First Line:
Ye vain desist from your erroneous strife
Last Line:
Brave men would act though scandal should ensue
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
27070
269.
Yet true renown is still with virtue joined
First Line:
Yet true renown is still with virtue joined
Last Line:
But lust of power lets loose the unbridled mind
DMI number:
39173
270.
Yet true renown is still with virtue joined
First Line:
Yet true renown is still with virtue joined
Last Line:
Though lust of power lets loose th'unbridled mind
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5956
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