A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.