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SCG-C.733.058
11-18 Aug 1733:12 (83)
[In essay entitled: "Of Anger, Envy and Malice"]
. . . ---Anger is like
A full hot horse; allow him but his way,
Self-metal tires him. [signed] Shakesp.
But it is scarcely possible to defend ourselves from the
other two.
Envy inflames us against others, who, in our opinion, are
happier than we; and is thus admirable described by Dr.
Garth in his Dispensary:
Beneath the gloomy covert of a Eugh,
That taints the grass with sickly sweats of dew.
No verdant beauty entertains the sight,
But baneful hemlock and cold arconite;
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