The working-class ... is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, a...nd is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen, That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed... As obstinacy, both in men and women, Whene'er their triumph pales, or star is tamed -- And 'twill perplex the casuist in morality To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But physic yet could never reach The maladies thou me dost teach:... Whom first the cramp of hope does tear; And then the palsy shakes of fear; The pestilence of love does heat; Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat; Joy's cheerful madness does perplex, Or sorrow's other madness vex; Which knowledge forces me to know, And memory will not forgo. What but a soul could have the wit To build me up for sin so fit? So architects do square and hew Green trees that in the forest grew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »