O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.