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Rh for if he might lash and lacerate with Swift, he prefers to tickle and titillate with Addison, and therefore adds, in such a case,

Genial and good-natured, accordingly, he appears throughout—using his victims as old Izaak did his bait, as though he loved them—yet taking care that the hook shall do its work. Among the irksome shams of the day, he is "smart" upon those cant-mongers who

Here is another home-thrust:

Elsewhere he counsels thus, festina lente, his impetuous compatriots:

Once more: there is pithy description in a list he furnishes of

Poems that shuffle with superfluous legs

A blindfold minuet over addled eggs,