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Who Says In Verse What Others Say In Prose.
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Who says in verse what others say in prose.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 202
Related:
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
