As to 'Don Juan ' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing, it may be bawdy but is it not good English? It may be profligate but is it not life is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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