Get Place And Wealth, If Possible, With Grace; If Not, By Any Means Get Wealth And Place.

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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book i, Line 103

When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
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.

Get Place And Wealth, If Possible, With Grace; If Not, By Any Means Get Wealth And Place.

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