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NEVER to NEWTON, SIR ISAAC

NEVER.—Never wedding, ever wooing,
Still a love-lorn heart pursuing,
Read you not the wrong you’re doing,
In my cheek’s pale hue?
All my life with sorrow strewing,
Wed, or cease to woo.

Campbell.

And still be doing, never done.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 204.

Never ending, still beginning.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 5.

Always filling, never full.

Cowper.—To Rev. W. Bull, Line 73.

Ever reading, never to be read!

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book III. Line 194.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Timothy.—Epi. II. Chap. III. Verse 7.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 627.

NEVER MET.—Never met, or never parted,
We had ne’er been broken-hearted.

Burns.—Ae fond Kiss, Verse 2.

Ne’er to meet, or ne’er to part, is peace.

Young.—Night V. Line 1058.

NEW.—There is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes.—Chap. I. Verse 9.

Nothing is new; we walk where others went:
There’s no vice now but has its precedent.

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorism 213.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Pope.—On Criticism, Line 335.

New subjects are not easily explain’d,
And you had better choose a well-known theme
Than trust to an invention of your own.

Roscommon.—Horace’s Art of Poetry.

NEW YEAR’S DAY.—This is a day, in days of yore,
Our fathers never saw before:
This is a day, ’tis one to ten,
Our sons will never see again.

Fielding.—The Historical Register for 1736. Act I. Scene 1.