One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.