A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

Remorse begets reform.

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.