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Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.255^60.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

-Swift,Jonathan
  'On Poetry', l.85^8.

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