inconstancy

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“If I speak diversely of myself, it is because I look diversely upon myself,” he writes, in “On the Inconstancy of Our Actions.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

His chief poem is Diophantus and Charidora; Inconstancy Upbraided is perhaps the best of his short poems.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

Inconstancy is such a guilt, as makes That very love suspected, which it brings; It brings a gift, but 'tis of ill-got wealth, The spoils of some forsaken lover's heart.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The lines have been often imitated; and in Sir Robert Aytoun's poem on "Woman's Inconstancy," the imitation has a charm not inferior to the original.

From Horace by Martin, Theodore

The fourth Cause, which indeed affects every Body, but more particularly the Labourer, is, the Inconstancy of the Weather.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)