A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.