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...e multitude to dire revenge 
With headlong violence, but soothes the soul 
To harmony and peace, bids them aspire 
With emulation and pure zeal of heart, 
To that high glory in the world unseen, 
And crown celestial, which pure virtue gives. 


Thus eloquence and poesy divine 
A nobler range of sentiment receive; 
Life brought to view and immortality, 
A recent world through which bold fancy roves, 
And gives new magic to the pow'r of song; 
For where the streams of revelatio...Read more of this...

...alute success, 
Honor the wiser, happier bless, 
 And for thy neighbor feel; 
Grutch not of Mammon and his leav'n,
Work emulation up to heav'n 
 By knowledge and by zeal. 

 XLIX 
O DAVID, highest in the list 
Of worthies, on God's ways insist, 
 The genuine word repeat: 
Vain are the documents of men, 
And vain the flourish of the pen 
 That keeps the fool's conceit. 

 L 
PRAISE above all—for praise prevails; 
Heap up the measure, load the scales, 
 And good to goodness add...Read more of this...

...his instrument
That conquer'd her; a fitting monument.
So far even little soules are driven on,
Struck with a vertuous emulation....Read more of this...

...the sacred few, 
POPE, DRYDEN, SPENSER, all that Fame shall raise, 
From CHAUCER'S gloom­till MERRY'S lucid days: 
Then emulation kindles fancy's fire, 
The glorious throng poetic flights inspire; 
Each sensate bosom feels the god-like flame, 
The cherish'd harbinger of future fame. 
Yet timid genius, oft in conscious ease, 
Steals from the world, content the few to please: 
Obscur'd in shades, the modest Muse retires, 
While sparkling vapours emulate her fires. 
The proud en...Read more of this...

...so,
He did the rest, and did it handsomely. 

HAMILTON

Commend yourself to Ahab and his ways 
If they inveigle you to emulation; 
But where, if I may ask it, are you tending 
With your invidious wielding of the Scriptures?
You call to mind an eminent archangel 
Who fell to make him famous. Would you fall 
So far as he, to be so far remembered? 

BURR

Before I fall or rise, or am an angel, 
I shall acquaint myself a little further
With our new land’s new language, which is ...Read more of this...

...ithin them; and no less desire 
To found this nether empire, which might rise, 
By policy and long process of time, 
In emulation opposite to Heaven. 
Which when Beelzebub perceived--than whom, 
Satan except, none higher sat--with grave 
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 
A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care; 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 
Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood 
With Atlantean shoulders, fit t...Read more of this...

...nited thus--each helping each,
Brisk work the countless hands forever;
For naught its power to strength can teach,
Like emulation and endeavor!
Thus linked the master with the man,
Each in his rights can each revere,
And while they march in freedom's van,
Scorn the lewd rout that dogs the rear!
To freemen labor is renown!
Who works--gives blessings and commands;
Kings glory in the orb and crown--
Be ours the glory of our hands.

Long in these walls--long may we greet
Your foo...Read more of this...

...e
His breth'ren write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
He wished his rivals all in hell.

Her end when Emulation misses,
She turns to Envy, stings, and hisses:
The strongest friendship yields to pride,
Unless the odds be on our side.
Vain human kind! fantastic race!
Thy various follies who can trace?
Self-love, ambition, envy, pride,
Their empire in our hearts divide.
Give others riches, power, and station,
'Tis all on me an usurpation.
I have no title to asp...Read more of this...

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