She suffers hourly more than me.”
Swift to Stella.
“We contributed a third more than the Dutch, who were obliged to the same proportion more than us.” Swift, Conduct of the Allies.
“King Charles, and more than him, the Duke, and the Popish Faction, were at liberty to form new schemes.” Lord Bolingbroke, Diss. on Parties, Letter 3.
“A Poem, which is good in itself, cannot lose any thing of its real value, though it should appear not to be the work of so eminent an author, as him, to whom it was first imputed.” Congreve, Pref. to Homer’s Hymn to Venus.
“If the King give us leave, you or I may as lawfully preach, as them that do.” Hobbes, Hist. of Civil Wars, p. 62.
“The sun upon the calmest sea
Appears not half so bright as Thee.”
Prior.
“Then finish dear Chloe this Pastoral war,