The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… they drew, And well they practis'd what they knew; Nor taste, nor wit, deserves applause, Unless still true to critic laws; Good sense, of faculties the best, Inspire and regulate the rest. Oh! how unlike the wit that fell, RAMBOUILLET! at … Physicians, fraught with real science, And Whigs and Tories in alliance; Poets, fulfilling Christian duties, Just Lawyers, reasonable Beauties; Bishops who preach, and Peers who pay, And Countesses who seldom play; Learn'd Antiquaries, …
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