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And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive.
-- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Paulo Purganti...
And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory.
-- Horace Smith (1779-1849) -- Address to the Mummy at Belz...
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
..Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and...
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
-- Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i...
And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 39...
And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium -- T.
S. Elio...
And thus ends another wit-filled message.
And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, cxi, Stanza 6...
And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Richard III -- Act i, Sc. 3...
And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 32...

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