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  • In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

    -Joseph Addison
      In The Spectator, no.68,18 May.

  • Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole: The mellow glory of the Attic stage; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.

    - Matthew Arnold
      Of Sophocles. The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'To a Friend'.

  • The mellow lin-lan-lone of evening bells.

    -Tennyson
      'Far-Far-Away', l.5.

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