The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.