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Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The east; 'tis time unfolds read more
'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of read more
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
