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The Vulgar Boil, The Learned Roast, An Egg.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle ii, Book ii, Line 85
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Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.
