The Man Hath Penance Done, And Penance

The Faults Of Great Authors Are Generally Excellences Carried To An Excess.

'tis A Month Before The Month Of May, And The Spring Comes Slowly Up This Way.

Poetry, Even That Of The Loftiest, And Seemingly, That Of The Wildest Odes, [has] A Logic Of Its Own As Severe As That Of Science; And More Difficult, Because More Subtle, More Complex, And Dependent On More And More Fugitive Causes. In The Truly Great Poets... There Is A Reason Assignable, Not Only For Every Word, But For The Position Of Every Word.

In Your Intercourse With Sects, The Sublime And Abstruse Doctrines Of Christian Belief Belong To The Church; But The Faith Of The Individual, Centred In His Heart, Is, Or May Be, Collateral To Them. Faith Is Subjective.

Pedantry Consists In The Use Of Words Unsuitable To The Time, Place, And Company.