Poetry & Verse
Satire II. to Mr Bethel.
By Alexander PopeSource: Alexander Pope - PoetryDB (Public Domain)9763 words
SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. What, and how great, the virtue and the art To live on little with a cheerful heart; (A doctrine...
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SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. What, and how great, the virtue and the art To live on little with a cheerful heart; (A doctrine sage, but truly none of mine) Let's talk, my friends, but talk before we dine; Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside; Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll, And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.…
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