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How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
 Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is 
solid refinement.  
 Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is 
solid refinement. 
 There are fagots and fagots.
 [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]  
 There are fagots and fagots.
 [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] 
 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
  Suggon l'istesso umore.] 
 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. 
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]  
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] 
 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.