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When The Brisk Minor Pants For Twenty-one.
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When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book i, Line 38
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He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
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Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines.
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
