Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
Low on his funeral couch he lies!
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.