History & Politics
Authors and Publishers
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
History & Politics
'A heavy wit shall hang at every lord,'
So sung Dan Pope; but 'pon my word,
He was a story-teller,
Or else the times have altered quite;
For wits, or heavy, now, or light
Hang each by a bookseller.
S. T. C.
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