The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… new. But wit and parts if thus we praise, What nobler altars should we raise. Those sacrifices could we see Which wit, O Virtue! makes to thee. At once the rising thought to dash, To quench at once the bursting flash! The shining mischief to … void. Amidst the brightest truths believ'd, Amidst the fairest deeds achiev'd, Shall stand recorded and admir'd, That Virtue sunk what Wit inspir'd. But let the letter'd, and the fair, And, chiefly, let the WIT beware; You, whose warm …
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