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.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.