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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine.
SATIRES AND IMITATIONS OF HORACE Prologue, Line 1.
Shut, shut the door, good John.
Line 12.
E'en Sunday s.h.i.+nes no Sabbath day to me.
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Who pens a stanza when he should engross.
Line 127.
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,
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d.a.m.n with faint praise, a.s.sent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
Line 308.
Who breaks a b.u.t.terfly upon a wheel?
Line 333.
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Book ii. Satire i. Line 6.
Lord f.a.n.n.y spins a thousand such a day.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Then St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Book ii. Satire ii. Line 159.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.[12]
[Note 12: See the Odyssey, Book xv. line 83.]
Book ii. Epistle i. Line 108.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
_Epilogue to the Satires_.
Dialogue i. Line 136.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
_Epitaph on Gay_.
Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.
THE DUNCIAD.
Book i. Line 54.
And solid pudding against empty praise.
Book iii. Line 158.
All crowd, who foremost shall be d.a.m.ned to fame.
Book iii. Line 165.
