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MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS
Or these, of the same hand:
I leave the arts of poetry and verse
To them that practise them with more success.
Of greater truths I now prepare to tell,
And so at once, dear friend and muse, farewel[6].
To them that practise them with more success.
Of greater truths I now prepare to tell,
And so at once, dear friend and muse, farewel[6].
Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea; as where a ship set on fire owes all the spirit of the bathos to one choice word, that ends the line.
And his scorch'd ribs the hot contagion fry'd[7].
And in that description of a world in ruins:
So also in these,
Frequently