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As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame,
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii....
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the...
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and...
Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us, since life can little...
But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Source: In
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything...
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Source: The Rape of the Lock, V....
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain,
The creature's at his dirty work again.
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence.
Source: Eloisa to Abelard, 192
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But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat:
To some, indeed, Heaven grants...
Chaste to her Husband, frank to all beside,
A teeming Mistress, but a barren Bride.
Cibber! write all thy Verses upon Glasses,
The only way to save 'em from our Arses.
Did some more sober critic come abroad?
If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in...