By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

I fell in love with melancholy