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From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language from Chaucer to Saxe, with Notes, Explanatory and Biographical, by James Parton; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1884; pp. 646-647.
546Placed between the busts of Newton and Pope.
“IMMORTAL Newton never spoke
More truth than here you ’ll find ;
Nor Pope himself e’er penn’d a joke
More cruel on mankind.
“The picture placed the busts between,
Gives satire all its strength ;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen —
But Folly at full length.”
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