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Quotes from On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody — Jonathan Swift

1667–1745 Ireland

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Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.

On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)

Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)

As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.

On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)

So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.

On Poetry: Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733)

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