<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By False Pretenses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">John S. Hittell, whose sovereign genius wields<br>The quill his tributary body yields;<br>The author of an opera-that is,<br>All but the music and libretto's his:<br>A work renowned, whose formidable name,<br>Linked with his own, repels the assault of fame<br>From the high vantage of a dusty shelf,<br>Secure from all the world except himself;<br>Who told the tale of 'Culture' in a screed<br>That all might understand if some would read;<br>Master of poesy and lord of prose,<br>Dowered, like a setter, with a double nose;<br>That one for Erato, for Clio this;<br>He flushes both-not his fault if we miss;<br>Judge of the painter's art, who'll straight proclaim<br>The hue of any color you can name,<br>And knows a painting with a canvas back<br>Distinguished from a duck by the duck's quack;<br>This thinker and philosopher, whose work<br>Is famous from Commercial street to Turk,<br>Has got a fortune now, his talent's meed.<br>A woman left it him who could not read,<br>And so went down to death's eternal night<br>Sweetly unconscious that the wretch could write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342749" data-title="By False Pretenses de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="John S. Hittell, whose sovereign genius wields The quill his tributary body yields; The author of an opera-that is, All but the music and libretto's his: A work renowned, whose formidable name, Linked with his own, repels the assault of fame From ..."></div> </div> </div>

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