Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.