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Advice To The Grub-Street Verse-Writers |
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Title: Advice To The Grub-Street Verse-Writers Author: Jonathan Swift [More Titles by Swift] 1726
I know a trick to make you thrive; Get all your verses printed fair, Lend these to paper-sparing[2] Pope; When Pope has fill'd the margins round,
[Footnote 2: The original copy of Pope's celebrated translation of Homer (preserved in the British Museum) is almost entirely written on the covers of letters, and sometimes between the lines of the letters themselves.] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |