The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM III.
[If by “Plus, minus,” I express]
PLUS, MINUS.
If by “Plus, minus,” I express
This paradox, that more is less,
No rule of grammar I transgress,
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The veriest horn-book scholar knows,
That half round O an hundred shows,
While whole round O for nothing goes;
—Quod erat demonstrandum.
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