The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for
country life.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for
country life.

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more

Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.

Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!

Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!

All came from, and will goe to others.

All came from, and will goe to others.

To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.

Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more

Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]