Talk:John Suckling

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Her lips were red, and one was thin;
Compared with that was next her chin,—
Some bee had stung it newly.
- Ballad upon a Wedding.

'T is expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
- Against Fruition.

She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.
- Brennoralt, Act ii.

Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,—
A meeting of gentle lights without a name.
- Brennoralt, Act iii.

But as when an authentic watch is shown,
Each man winds up and rectifies his own,
So in our very judgments.
- Aglaura, Epilogue. Compare: "'T is with our judgments as our watches,—none Go just alike, yet each believes his own", Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, part i. line 9.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
- The Goblins. The same is found in William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act iii, Sc. 4.

"High characters," cries one, and he would see
Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.
- The Goblins. Epilogue. Compare: "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be", Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism, part ii, line 53; "There's no such thing in Nature, and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw", John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, Essay on Poetry.