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Yours is the guilt of all, who, judging wrong,
Mistake tuned nonsense for the poet's song!
Provoking dulness!—what a soul has he
Who fancies rhyme, and measure, poetry!—
He thinks, profanely, that this generous art
Stops at the ear—with power to shake the heart.

— Aaron Hill Advice to the Poets (1731)

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Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.

Zara (1735)

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

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O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night,
Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

She most attracts who longest can refuse.

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