Potential Titles: Vice

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To hide the zoo of my petty vices - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"

For the vices of a strong man are pardoned - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

At whose shrine knelt luxury and vice - E. Coungeau "Peace"

In all the kindred vices trace - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Fostered every vice in fashion - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Soars to the heights of foreign vices - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

By which Vice cheated eye and ear - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

All the vices of the age - Oliver Goldsmith "Parson Gray"

In vice they should wander astray - "Improvement" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

Splitting the nucleus of human vice - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Roaring storms of vice and ire - H.P. McKnight "Acrostic to Warden and Mrs. E.G. Coffin"

And horrible vices their poisons distil - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Pursuing vice or folly's way - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

A mansion have those vices got - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"


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