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Vote: | Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. |
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Vote: | My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdues (what will not time subdue!) An horrid chasm disclosed. |
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Vote: | Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred, Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach. |
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Vote: | When swelling buds their od'rous foliage shed, And gently harden into fruit, the wise Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow Redundant. |
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Vote: | When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest. |
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John Philips (1676 - 1709), poet, son of an archdeacon of Salop, and
educated at Oxford. His Splendid Shilling, a burlesque in Miltonic blank
verse, still lives, and Cyder, his chief work, an imitation of Virgil's
Georgics, has some fine descriptive passages. Philips was also employed by
Harley to write verses on Blenheim as a counterblast to Addison's
Campaign. He died at 33 of consumption.
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