Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
-- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711)
-- The Art of Poetry, Canto i, Line 75
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
-- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711)
-- The Art of Poetry, Canto i, Line 75
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- Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art... - Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer
From grave to gay,
from lively to severe. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- Satire... - There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell;
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu." -- Nicholas... - Under the wide an starry sky,
Dig my grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with... - Under the wide an starry sky,
Dig my grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with... - This just in from a Nicholas Notifier up north. Everyone's favorite
farmer and political commentator off the interstate near Chehalis has
just come up with the prize line of his career.
"Limit congressmen to two terms. One in office. One... - And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Rape of the Lock, Canto i, Line... - The Worst Lines of Verse
For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line:
"Come, muse, let us sing of rats." Grainger (1721-67)...
