The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.