allure quotes

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Phineas Finn, ch.57.

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