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Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.
Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell
Draw we here a parallel!
She, like thee, was forced to read more
Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell
Draw we here a parallel!
She, like thee, was forced to bear
All reflections, foul or fair.
Thou art deep and bright within,
Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;
Thou art very frail as well,
Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver, that he to Handel
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Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver, that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:
Strange all this difference should be,
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
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.
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.
