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Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
But every fool describes, in these bright days,
His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
And spawns read more
But every fool describes, in these bright days,
His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--
Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
Smelling of the lamp.
Smelling of the lamp.
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can.
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can.
So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
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So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the public mind.
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the public mind.
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their read more
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals;
or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they
please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
No call has ever poisoned by pen.
[Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.]
No call has ever poisoned by pen.
[Fr., Aucun fiel n'a jamais empoisonne ma plumme.]
Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.
Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.