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Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
Some say, that Seignior Bononchini
Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;
Others aver, to him, that Handel
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Some say, that Seignior Bononchini
Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny;
Others aver, to him, that Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
