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...by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. DRTDEN. CHARACTER OF OG. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight work...

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...In squandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief. He had great liveliness of wit, with a peculiar faculty of turning all things into ridicule, but he...

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...estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er he chief: Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. The difference between the style of versification here exemplified, and that which nourished in earlier...