The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems ...
The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems ...
Thomas Hayward, William Oldys
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earning and arts are theories, no practkks : underftand is all they ftudy to ; fen drive to know too much, too little do. Middleton and Ro*wlcy\ World tofii at Tennis* earning is an addition beyond obility of birth ; honour of blood, Without the ornament of knowledge, is at a glorious ignorance. Shirley's Lady of Plcafure. fhat fablous errors learning is attended with ? Ws five worlds, their fempiternity, itbagoras* tranfmigration, and opinions, idgment would blufh to father. Nabbsh Covent-Gard...tn. How does learning flourifh now Athens? Jult as virtue at the court ; >r with the times affecting ignorance, bas banifh'd true indullrious labour thence .; id vicious loofenefs finding none refill, is fo engrofs'd the mod refined wits, id by the terrors of her fenfual threats, rd fuch deluding crocodiles in their brains, lat like the thrifty fwift Egyptian dogs, ley fcarcely tafte of thofe fair feven-fold ftreams, i 5 8 LEG Into whore depth their induftry wonid dive i And having only got a teeming face Of fuperficul knowledge, 'mongft the graft, And beail-like ienfe-coticciving multitude j They mofl ambkioufly feek and purine Vulgar applaufe for their poor oocfido skill * And by inch mud-wall ftairs, do often rife Up to the top of abus'd dignities.
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