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Horace, with sly insinuating grace,
Laugh’d at his friend, and look’d him in the face;
Would raise a blush where secret vice he found,
And tickle while he gently probed the wound;
With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled,
But made the desperate passes when he smiled.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow’d long;
Even wonder’d at, because he dropt no sooner.
Fate seem’d to wind him up for fourscore years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more:
Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Where the tender rinds of trees disclose
Their shooting germs, a swelling knot there grows;
Just in that place a narrow slit we make,
Then other buds from bearing trees we take;
Inserted thus, the wounded rind we close.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
She took the coleworts which her husband got
From his own ground (a small well-water’d spot);
She stripp’d the stalks of all their leaves; the best
She cull’d, and then with handy care she dress’d.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Th’ illiterate writer, empiric-like, applies
To minds diseased unsafe chance remedies:
The learn’d in schools, where knowledge first began,
Studies with care th’ anatomy of man;
Sees virtue, vice, and passions in their cause,
And fame from science, not from fortune, draws.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Obscure! why prythee what am I? I know
My father, grandsire, and great grandsire too:
If farther I derive my pedigree,
I can but guess beyond the fourth degree.
The rest of my forgotten ancestors
Were sons of earth.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)