The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
To you, dear Youth, whom all the Muses own,And great Apollo speaks his darling Son,To you the Muse directs her ...
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's ...
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
O thou, with ev'ry Virtue grac'd,Adorn'd with Wit, and Sense, and Taste;Who, with a Goodness unconfin'd,Delight'st in blessing human Kind,Whose ...
Let 'em Censure: what care I?The Herd of Criticks I defie.Let the Wretches know, I writeRegardless of their Grace, or ...
No more at Criticks, Ned, repine,Who say those Numbers are not thine.I own I was suspicious too,And thought the Verse ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
When first Apollo got my brain with Childe,He made large promise never to beguile,But like an honest Father, he would ...
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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