A hat not much the worse for wear. - William Cowper

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

The sounding jargon of the schools.

I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.