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Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Judgment
Therefore
Censures
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
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The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
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