Means Not, But Blunders Round About A Meaning; And He Whose Fustian 's So Sublimely Bad, It Is Not Poetry, But Prose Run Mad.

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Means not, but blunders round about a meaning;
And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad,
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 186

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