The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… To cramp wild genius in the chains of taste, To bear the slavish drudgery of schools, And tamely stoop to ev'ry pedant's rules, For seven long years debarr'd of lib'ral ease, To plod in college trammels to degrees, Beneath the weight of … one dull drowsy track of business trod, Worship their Mammon, and neglect their God; Who, breathing by one musty set of rules, Dote from the birth, and are by system fools; Who, form'd to dullness from their very youth, Lies of the day …
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