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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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And does his charge and labour pay

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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ome that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie:I have lov'd, and got, and told;But should I love, get, tell, till I were old;I should not find that hidden mystery;Oh, 'tis imposture all!And as no chymic yet th' elixir got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befallSome odoriferous thing, or medicinal,So lovers dream a rich and long delight,But get a winter-seeming summer's night. DONNE. Jonson and Donne, as Dr. Hurd remarks, were then in the highest esteem. It is related by Clarendon, that Cowley always acknowledges hisobligation to the learning and industry of Jonson; but I have found notraces of Jonson in his works: to emulate Donne appears to have beenhis purpose; and from Donne he may have learned that familiarity withreligious images, and that light allusion to sacred things, by whichreaders far short of sanctity are frequently offended; and which wouldnot be borne, in the present age, when devotion, perhaps, not morefervent, is more delicate. Having produced one passage taken by Cowley from Donne, I willrecompense him by another which Milton seems to have borrowed from him.He says of Goliah: His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree,Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be.
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