Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.