"৳ IN flower of youth, with love of learning blest, My verse was wont in cheerful strains to flow; But now, by Fortune…"

"৳ Whilst I vented my grief in these melancholy strains, and, with tears streaming from my eyes, was committing them t…"

"৳ This admirable garment, however, had been rent by the fury of some violent men, who had torn several shreds out of …"

"৳ Beholding the Muses, the inspirers of song, standing round my bed, and lending words to my grief, she was displease…"

"Who gives permission... to these soul-enervating daughters of the theatre, to approach this disconsolate person? So f…"

"৳ Struck with these reproaches, the tuneful choir cast down their eyes with respect; and testifying their shame by th…"

"৳ No... for if every thing were moved by compulsion, the effects of art would be vain and fruitless."

"Ah! hapless state of human race! How quick do all their pleasures pass! And too, too weak their minds to bear Life's …"

"৳ I am... desirous of knowing, whether there is any such thing as Chance, and what you think it is... [T]o learn thos…"

"Heavenly substances, who are exalted above us, have an enlightened judgment, an incorruptible will, and a power ever …"