Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Limbs of a dismembered poet.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.