The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… condescends to honour Kit-Cats Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and Statesmen love or fear: Who with an uncontroul'd, Despotic Sway, Dost still … of State. In Pleasure here they pass the wearing Night, And the hard Labours oi the Day recite; They tell how bravely Artop Silence broke, And how much like an Angel Oran spoke; How some young Orators new come from School, Mounted the Rope, and danc'd without a Pole. What wretched Speeches t'other Party made, How weak, and how insipid things were said By all their leading Men, but by their own What Miracles of …
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