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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dean’s Answer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nymph who wrote this in an amorous fit,<br>I cannot but envy the pride of her wit,<br>Which thus she will venture profusely to throw<br>On so mean a design, and a subject so low.<br>For mean's her design, and her subject as mean,<br>The first but a rebus, the last but a dean.<br>A dean's but a parson: and what is a rebus?<br>A thing never known to the Muses or Phoebus.<br>The corruption of verse; for, when all is done,<br>It is but a paraphrase made on a pun.<br>But a genius like hers no subject can stifle,<br>It shows and discovers itself through a trifle.<br>By reading this trifle, I quickly began<br>To find her a great wit, but the dean a small man.<br>Rich ladies will furnish their garrets with stuff,<br>Which others for mantuas would think fine enough:<br>So the wit that is lavishly thrown away here,<br>Might furnish a second-rate poet a year.<br>Thus much for the verse, we proceed to the next,<br>Where the nymph has entirely forsaken her text:<br>Her fine panegyrics are quite out of season:<br>And what she describes to be merit, is treason:<br>The changes which faction has made in the state,<br>Have put the dean's politics quite out of date:<br>Now no one regards what he utters with freedom,<br>And, should he write pamphlets, no great man would read 'em;<br>And, should want or desert stand in need of his aid,<br>This racer would prove but a dull founder'd jade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</a><div class=q>
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I cannot but envy the pride of her wit,
Which thus she will venture profusely to throw
On so mean a design, and a subject so low.
For mean's her design, and her subject as mean,
The first but a rebus, th..."></div>
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