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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Every professional was once an amateur.

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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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