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In such green palaces the first kings reign’d,
Slept in their shades, and angels entertain’d;
With such old counsellors they did advise,
And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.

On St. James’s Park.

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And keeps the palace of the soul. 1

Of Tea.

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Upon Roscommon’s Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica.

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Could we forbear dispute and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.

Divine Love. Canto iii.

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The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. 2
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home:
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

On the Divine Poems.

Thomas Fuller. (1608–1661)

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Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Life of Monica.

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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. 3

Life of the Duke of Alva.

Note 1.
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.—Lord Byron: Childe Harold, canto ii. stanza 6. [back]

Note 2.
See Daniel, Quotation 1.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.—Samuel Rogers: Pæstum. [back]

Note 3.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy-body to decay,
And o’er-inform’d the tenement of clay.
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156. [back]

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