his seasons[1].

But listen again, for this also is literature:

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness:
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction:
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher:
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly:
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat:
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.

Here again is literature:

When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends on a
holiday filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to a
shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with
the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of
another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.
I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much
pleased with my whistle but disturbing all the family. My
brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I
had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it
was worth ... The reflection gave me more chagrin than the
whistle gave me pleasure. [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.]

Of a bridal, this is literature:

Open the temple gates unto my love,
Open them wide that she may enter in!

But so also is Suckling's account of a wedding that begins

I tell thee, Dick, where I have been.

This is literature:

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and
a covert from the tempest;
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

But so is this literature:

One circle cannot touch another circle on the outside at
more points than one.
For, if it be possible, let the circle ACK touch the circle
ABC at the points A, C. Join AC.
Then because the two points A, C are in the
circumference of the circle ACK the line which joins them
falls within that circle.
But the circle ACK is without the circle ABC. Therefore
the straight line AC is without the circle ABC.
But because the two points A, C are in the circumference of
ABC therefore the straight line AC falls within that circle.
_Which is absurd._
Therefore one circle cannot touch another on the outside at
more points than one.

All thoughts, as well as all passions, all delights

_votum, timor, ira, voluptas_--

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