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Gentle shepherd, tell me where.

SAMUEL HOWARD (1710-1782).

Pray, Goody, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue! Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes? Remember, when the judgment 's weak the prejudice is strong.

KANE O'HARA (---- -1782): _Midas. Act i. Sc. 4._

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

ROBERT LOWTH (1710-1787): _Choice of Hercules, i._

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

---- DYER (published in the early part of the reign of George I.).

Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed; How hard their lot who neither won nor lost!

RICHARD GRAVES (1715-1804): _The Festoon_ (1767).

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

GEORGE A. STEVENS (1720-1784): _The Storm._

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

THOMAS GIBBONS (1720-1785): _When Jesus dwelt._

In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.

RICHARD HURD (1720-1808): _Sermons. Vol. ii. p. 287._

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

JAMES WOLFE (1726-1759): _Despatch to Pitt, Sept. 2, 1759._

Kathleen mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill.

ANNE CRAWFORD (1734-1801): _Kathleen Mavourneen._

Who can refute a sneer?

WILLIAM PALEY (1743-1805): _Moral Philosophy. Vol. ii.