Arts & Sciences
Lines Written in Ridicule of Certain Poems Published in 1777
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett (1855)
Arts & Sciences
Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new;
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong;
Phrase that time has flung away,
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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Johnson, Samuel. “Lines Written in Ridicule of Certain Poems Published in 1777.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/24/.
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Johnson, Samuel. “Lines Written in Ridicule of Certain Poems Published in 1777.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/24/.
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