And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

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

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.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.