Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and read more

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty
and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
read more

And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The problem still for us and all of human race.

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.]

How God ever brings like to like.

How God ever brings like to like.

At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.

To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.