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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
The Progress of Error (1782)
Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
The Progress of Error (1782)
Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
The Progress of Error (1782)
The Cross!
There, and there only (though the deist rave,
And atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave);
There and there only, is the power to save.
The Progress of Error (1792)
Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest,
A cassock’d huntsman and a fiddling priest!
The Progress of Error (1782)
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
The Progress of Error (1782)
Himself a wanderer from the narrow way,
His silly sheep, what wonder if they stray?
The Progress of Error (1782)
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,
And hides the ruin that it feeds upon;
So sophistry cleaves close to and protects
Sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
The Progress of Error (1782)
Laugh at all you trembled at before.
The Progress of Error (1782)