Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . ' Dean , adult education may seem silly . What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly The other evening at your college deanery . And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!)[…]

He turned toward the door, plunged forward, fell unconscious. . . . When he came to his senses he was in his bed—comfortable, weak, lazy.

Shiver me sails an' rot me timbers, fry me barnacles, scrape me keel, an' all that nautical jimjam.

I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.