Waller was smooth but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
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Respecting man, whatever wrong we call,May, must be right, as relative to all.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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What's fame A fancied life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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One simile, that solitary shines; In a dry desert of a thousand lines.
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