<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ghost: Book III (excerpt)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">...<br> Horrid, unwieldly, without form,<br> Savage, as ocean in a storm,<br> Of size prodigious, in the rear,<br> That post of honour, should appear<br> Pomposo; fame around should tell<br> How he a slave to int'rest fell,<br> How, for integrity renown'd,<br> Which booksellers have often found,<br> He for subscribers baits his hook,<br> And takes their cash--but where's the book?<br> No matter where--wise fear, we know,<br> Forbids the robbing of a foe;<br> But what, to serve our private ends,<br> Forbids the cheating of our friends?<br> No man alive, who would not swear<br> All's safe, and therefore honest there.<br> For, spite of all the learned say,<br> If we to truth attention pay,<br> The word dishonesty is meant<br> For nothing else but punishment.<br> Fame too should tell, nor heed the threat<br> Of rogues, who brother rogues abet,<br> Nor tremble at the terrors hung<br> Aloft, to make her hold her tongue,<br> How to all principles untrue,<br> Nor fix'd to old friends, nor to new,<br> He damns the pension which he takes,<br> And loves the Stuart he forsakes.<br> Nature (who justly regular,<br> Is very seldom known to err,<br> But now and then in sportive mood,<br> As some rude wits have understood,<br> Or through much work requir'd in haste,<br> Is with a random stroke disgrac'd)<br> Pomposo form'd on doubtful plan,<br> Not quite a beast, nor quite a man,<br> Like--God knows what--for never yet<br> Could the most subtle human wit<br> Find out a monster which might be<br> The shadow of a simile.<br>...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Churchill">Charles Churchill</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=354719" data-title="The Ghost: Book III (excerpt) de Charles Churchill" data-description="... Horrid, unwieldly, without form, Savage, as ocean in a storm, Of size prodigious, in the rear, That post of honour, should appear Pomposo; fame around should tell How he a slave to int'rest fell, How, for integrity renown'd, Which book..."></div> </div> </div>

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