The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… tale, And laugh till reason blush, and spirits fail, Manhood with vile submission to disgrace, And cap the fool, whose merit is his Place; VICE CHANCELLORS, whose knowledge is but small, And CHANCELLORS, who nothing know at all, Ill-brook'd … the Bar, in Church and State, Genius is vile, and Learning out of date. Is this—O Death to think! is this the Land Where Merit and Reward went hand in hand, Where Heroes, Parent-like, the Poet view'd?— By whom they saw their glorious deeds …
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