Did Some More Sober Critics Come Abroad?

It Often Happens That Those Are The Best People Whose Characters Have Been Most Injured By Slanderers: As We Usually Find That To Be The Sweetest Fruit Which The Birds Have Been Picking At.

Expression Is The Dress Of Thought, And Still Appears More Decent As More Suitable; A Vile Conceit In Pompous Words Express'd, Is Like A Clown In Regal Purple Dress'd.

To Rest, The Cushion And Soft Dean Invite, Who Never Mentions Hell To Ears Polite.

Be Thou The First True Merit To Befriend, His Praise Is Lost Who Stays Till All Commend.

But See How Oft Ambition's Aims Are Cross'd, And Chiefs Contend 'til All The Prize Is Lost!