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Above All Greek, Above All Roman Fame.
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Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 26
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
