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• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto iii, Line 374...
• Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 379...
• He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- Satire 2...
• There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
  'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu....
• Under the wide an starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie
  Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, And this be the verse that you grave for me, Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill....
• Under the wide an starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie
  Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, And this be the verse that you grave for me, Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill....
• This just in from a Nicholas Notifier up north. Everyone's favorite farmer and political commentator off the interstate near Chehalis has just come up with the prize line of his career.
  "Limit congressmen to two terms. One in office. One in jail....
• And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto i, Line 134...
• The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line
  "Come, muse, let us sing of rats." Grainger (1721-67) did not have the courage of his convictions and deleted these words on discovering that his listeners dissolved into spontaneous laughter the instant they were read out....