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The Mob Of Gentlemen Who Wrote With Ease.
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The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 108
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Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
