"I envy not your fortune, but admire."
"Freedom, which came at length, though slow to come."
"And I preferred my pleasure to my gains."
"But I discern their flattery from their praise."
"Whence men, a hard laborious kind, were born."
"No room is left for death."
"Without thee, nothing lofty can I sing."
"In vain he burns, like hasty stubble fires."
"A mighty pomp, though made of little things."
"Slight is the subject, but the praise not small."
"With mighty souls in narrow bodies prest."
"If little things with great we may compare."
"Affecting studies of less noisy praise."
"We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure."
"Through various hazards and events we move."
"A woman leads the way."
"Your honour, name, and praise shall never die."
"Or had not men been fated to be blind."
"The fatal day, the appointed hour, is come."
"Thus fortune on our first endeavour smiled."
"As for my sepulchre, let heaven take care."
"This only solace his hard fortune sends."
"She fed within her veins a flame unseen."
"Fear ever argues a degenerate kind."
"This way and that he turns his anxious mind."