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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book x, Line 77...
Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 190...
Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains.
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, II, 3, Line 11...
Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.
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Yet still we hug the dear deceit. -- Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788) -- Content, Vision iv
Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xviii, Line 269...
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King He...
Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light, ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore.
-- Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) -- To Mary...
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspire
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best....

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