The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Fancy and Art in gay Petronius please,The Scholar's Learning, with the Courtier's Ease.
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Why pique all mortals, yet affect a name?
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The Critick else proceeds without Remorse,
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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