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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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<strong>The</strong> worst <strong>of</strong> madmen is a saint run mad.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27<br />

Shakespeare (whom you and ev’ry play-house bill<br />

Style the divine, the matchless, what you will)<br />

For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight,<br />

And grew immortal in his own despite.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 69<br />

Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet,<br />

His moral pleases, not his pointed wit.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 75<br />

<strong>The</strong> people’s voice is odd,<br />

It is, and it is not, the voice <strong>of</strong> God.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 89.<br />

But those who cannot write, and those who can,<br />

All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 187<br />

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join<br />

<strong>The</strong> varying verse, the full-resounding line,<br />

<strong>The</strong> long majestic march, and energy divine.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 267<br />

Ev’n copious Dryden, wanted, or forgot,<br />

<strong>The</strong> last and greatest art, the art to blot.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 280<br />

<strong>The</strong>re still remains, to mortify a wit,<br />

<strong>The</strong> many-headed monster <strong>of</strong> the pit.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304<br />

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,<br />

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135<br />

Ask you what provocation I have had?<br />

<strong>The</strong> strong antipathy <strong>of</strong> good to bad.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197<br />

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see<br />

Men not afraid <strong>of</strong> God, afraid <strong>of</strong> me.<br />

‘Imitations <strong>of</strong> Horace’ Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 208<br />

Ye gods! annihilate but space and time,<br />

And make two lovers happy.<br />

‘Martinus Scriblerus...or <strong>The</strong> Art <strong>of</strong> Sinking in Poetry’ ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)<br />

Happy the man, whose wish and care<br />

A few paternal acres bound,

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