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Thoughts on Our Present Discontents
USEFUL COUPLETS
O what a tricksie lerned nicking straine
Is this applauded, sencles, modern vairie!
JOIIN MARSTON: A Toy to Moclce an Ape (1598)
All other joyes to this are folly
None so sweete as Melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON: Abstract of Melancholy (1621)
What frenzy has of late pohsess'd the brain!
Though few can write, yet fewer can refrain.
SAMUEL GARTH: Claremont (1715)
Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive
On joys too thin to keep the soul alive.
EDWARD YOUNG: Satire V (1728)
With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue
For ever most divinely in the wrong.
EDWARD YOUNG: Satire VI (1728)
Another writes because his father writ,
And proves himself a bastard by his wit.
EDWARD YOUNG: First Epistle to Mr Pope (1780)
Undisciplined in dull Discretion's rules,
Untaught and undcbauch'd by boarding-schools.
CHARLES CHURCHILL: The Times (1764)
Caress'd and courted, Faber seems to stand
A mighty pillar in a guilty land.
CHARLES CHURCHILL: The Times (1764)
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