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But Let A Lord Once Own The Happy Lines, How The Wit Brightens!
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But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 220
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
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