If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our... nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is,... But now begins; for from this happy day The old Dragon underground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O the night of the weeping children! O the night of the children branded for death!... Sleep may not enter here. Terrible nursemaids Have usurped the place of mothers ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »