Alexander Pope Quotes About Critics
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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