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Mine is the ungrateful maid by heaven design'd:
Mercy she would not give, nor mercy shall she find."
"By her example warn'd, the rest beware;
More easy, less imperious, were the fair;
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind."
Dryden's _Theodore and Honoria_ (_sub fine_).]
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[Greek: Espere panta phereis]
[Greek: Phereis oinon--phereis aiga,]
[Greek: Phereis materi paida.]
_Fragment of Sappho._
[Greek: We/spere, pa/nta phe/ron, o(/sa phai/nolis e)ske/das' au)/os]
[Greek: Phe/reis oi)/n phe/reis ai~)ga, Phe/reis a)/py mate/ri pai~da.]
_Sappho_, Memoir, Text, by Henry Thornton Wharton, 1895, p. 136.
"Evening, all things thou bringest
Which dawn spread apart from each other;
The lamb and the kid thou bringest,
Thou bringest the boy to his mother."
J.A. Symonds.
Compare Tennyson's _Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After_--"Hesper, whom the
poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things."]
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"Era gia l'ora che volge il disio
Ai naviganti, e intenerisce il cuore;
Lo di ch' han detto ai dolci amici addio;
E che lo nuovo peregrin' damore
Punge, se ode squilla di lontano,
Che paia il giorno pianger che si more.
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