The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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'Tis hard to tell, where style is dwindling worse,
In mangled prose, or daily dabs of verse;
Alike in both the gallic zests pervade,
And furious flights of stiff bombast degrade.
The nervous, chaste, the manly and the pure,
The pregnant thoughts from sapient souls mature,—
The sense illuming where the wit combines,
And free conciseness of the meaning lines,—
Have vanish'd now, in styles o'erwrought and vain,
A frothy mess of flippancies inane.
In mangled prose, or daily dabs of verse;
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And furious flights of stiff bombast degrade.
The nervous, chaste, the manly and the pure,
The pregnant thoughts from sapient souls mature,—
The sense illuming where the wit combines,
And free conciseness of the meaning lines,—
Have vanish'd now, in styles o'erwrought and vain,
A frothy mess of flippancies inane.
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