New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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.
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.