Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him; Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3671845Full view - About this book
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 pages
...Doeg, tho' without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody. Let him rail on ... But if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense. Tate, Absalom and Achitophel, ii. (1682). Dog (Agrippd's). Cornelius Agrippa DOG 324 DOG had... | |
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