"৳ 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…"

"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…"

"If Chance is defined an event produced by motion, operating without design, and not by a chain or connexion of causes…"

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