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He Reviles Destiny and Climbs a Wall But now the spring was come again, and, as always at this season, I was pricked with vague longings to have done with roofs and paven places.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

Careless, if envy, with a spleenful sneer, Reviles that eulogy she bates to bear, Saying with freedom's ill-assum'd pretence, 'Tis noxious flattery, o'erwhelming sense.

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William