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Authors, Like Coins, Grow Dear As They Grow Old.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 35
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
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.
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