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end poetry block end rend Comus affects to despise the philosophy that is taught from the cynic tub of Diogenes, and ranges over all Nature for proof that men were intended to revel on her bounties, to “live while they live;” in fact to do what those Epicurean philosophers taught, who said, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” Nay, he dares to asperse the purity, and insult the majesty of Beauty itself: rend=';' Beauty is nature’s coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current; and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss— end poetry block end rend Now does the Lady rebuke him with all the true natural authority of virtue for obtruding his false rules “pranked in reason’s garb,” and in the true spirit of Satan bolting out his practical heresies with a fluency quite beyond the capabilities of the tongue of Virtue.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6, December 1850 by Various


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