Despair And Genius Are Too Oft Connected

I Deny Nothing, But Doubt Everything.

Dreading That Climax Of All Human Ills The Inflammation Of His Weekly Bills.

That Low Vice, Curiosity!

I Would Rather Have A Nod From An American, Than A Snuff- Box From An Emperor.

Not To Admire, Is All The Art I Know To Make Men Happy, Or To Keep Them So. Thus Horace Wrote We All Know Long Ago; And Thus Pope Quotes The Precept To Re-teach From His Translation; But Had None Admired, Would Pope Have Sung, Or Horace Been Inspired?