“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.” IfsMenWellsDreamDesireSidesVoiceSleepYouthGratefulCalmBlissAcquireCrownsMarbleYouth Life Book:New poems Source: New poems
“The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.” IfsSometimesDreamEyeUnderstandingFictionHistoryReaderMiracleCalmPhilosopherFraudSuspicionDeceivedSpectatorsRoman EmpireInsultedProfaneOmenProdigies Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus