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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Believe
Marvellous
Wonder
Nothing

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Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
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