It is to hope, tho' hope were lost. - Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.

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It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o’er;
So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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