Good Verses of a Bad Poet.
Few things in Dryden or Pope are finer than these lines
by a man whom they both continually laughed at ;— Sir
Richard Blackmore.
by a man whom they both continually laughed at ;— Sir
Richard Blackmore.
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Exhausted travellers, that have undergone1
The scorching heats of Life’s intemperate zone,2
Haste for refreshment to their beds beneath,3
And stretch themselves in the cool shades of Death.4