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What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human read more
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Bid the Devil take the slowest.
Bid the Devil take the slowest.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the read more
From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than read more
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.