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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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