Who Pants For Glory Finds But Short Repose: A Breath Revives Him, Or A Breath O'erthrows.

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Who pants for glory finds but short repose:
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 300

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
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.

Who Pants For Glory Finds But Short Repose: A Breath Revives Him, Or A Breath O'erthrows.

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