O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.