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The Schoolboy, With His Satchel In His Hand, Whistling Aloud To Bear His Courage Up.
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The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
-- Robert Blair (1699-1747)
-- The Grave, Part i, Line 58
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Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life!
and solder of society! -- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 88...
Of joys departed, Not to return, how painful the remembrance!
-- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 109...
The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou 'rt named
Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness....
The cup goes round: And who so artful as to put it by!
'T is long since Death had the majority....
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to retu
or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between....
He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
-- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book iv, Line 389...
God 's in his heaven: All 's right with the world.
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part i...
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 111...