Familiar Quotations

Chapter 353

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Men are but children of a larger growth.

_Conquest of Grenada_. Part i. Sc. 1.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

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_Spanish Friar_. Act ii. Sc. 1.

There is a pleasure In being mad which none but madmen know.

_Don Sebastian_. Act i. Sc. 1.

This is the porcelain clay of human kind.

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_Translation of Juvenal's 10th Satire_.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.

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_Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba_.

Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.

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_Imitation of the 29th of Horace_.