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Epigram on Miltonicks: After the Manner of the Moderns
From Poems on Several Occasions (1736)
Arts & Sciences
What makes You write at this odd Rate?
Why, Sirs, it is to imitate.
What makes You rant and ramble so?
Why, 'tis to do as others do.
But there's no Meaning to be seen:
Why, that's the very Thing I mean.
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Younger, Samuel Wesley the. “Epigram on Miltonicks: After the Manner of the Moderns.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_sy/1/.
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Younger, Samuel Wesley the. “Epigram on Miltonicks: After the Manner of the Moderns.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_sy/1/.
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