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These Are The Effects Of Doting Age,--vain Doubts And Idle Cares And Over Caution.

Imagination In A Poet Is A Faculty So Wild And Lawless That, Like A High Ranging Spaniel, It Must Have Clogs Tied To It, Lest It Outrun The Judgment. The Great Easiness Of Blank Verse Renders The Poet Too Luxuriant. He Is Tempted To Say Many Things Which Might Better Be Omitted, Or, At Least Shut Up In Fewer Words.

Secret Guilt By Silence Is Betrayed.

The Commendation Of Adversaries Is The Greatest Triumph Of A Writer, Because It Never Comes Unless Extorted.

Freedom Which In No Other Land Will Thrive, Freedom An English Subject's Sole Prerogative.