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(See also CHURCHILL)

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Curiosities of Literature. Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

DICKENS Our Mutual Friend. Bk. I. Ch. V.

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When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,

When the reason stands on its squarest toes, When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,'

There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;

But whenever the May-blood stirs and glows, And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"

And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,

Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme! AUSTIN DOBSON-The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme.

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What is a Sonnet? "Tis the pearly shell

That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea; A precious jewel carved most curiously; It is a little picture painted well. What is a Sonnet? "Tis the tear that fell From a great poet's hidden ecstasy; A two-edged sword, a star, a song-ah me! Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell. R. W. GILDER-The Sonnet.

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To write a verse or two, is all the praise That I can raise.

HERBERT The Church. Praise.

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A verse may finde him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

HERBERT The Temple. The Church Porch.

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