Genius involves both envy and calumny.
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.