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Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle ii, Book ii, Line 168
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Then marble soften'd into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form.
