Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
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In squandering wealth was his peculiar art Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggard by fools, whom still he found too late H had his jest, and they had his estate.
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