Power, Safely Defied, Touches Its Downfall.

The Chief-justice Was Rich, Quiet, And Infamous.

Politeness Has Been Well Defined As Benevolence In Small Things.

In Truth It May Be Laid Down As An Almost Universal Rule That Good Poets Are Bad Critics.

I Shall Cheerfully Bear The Reproach Of Having Descended Below The Dignity Of History.

In Taste And Imagination, In The Graces Of Style, In The Arts Of Persuasion, In The Magnificence Of Public Works, The Ancients Were At Least Our Equals.