10 Matthew Prior Quotes on Prior

Matthew Prior quotes on prior

1. Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.

2. The end must justify the means.

4. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfined; And clap your padlock - on her mind!

6. He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience; Backed his opinion with quotations.

7. Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

8. And often took leave, but was loth to depart.

9. His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach.

11. To John I owed great obligation; But John, unhappily, thought fit To publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

12. Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see.

13. Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?