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Or on the contrary, if he had in him a certain Proportion of Good, he should be dispatched into Heaven by a Passport from Pleasure, there to dwell with Happiness, Virtue and the Gods. No. 184. Monday, October 1, 1711. Addison. ... Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum ... Hor. When a Man has discovered a new Vein of Humour, it often carries him much further than he expected from it.
I have been surprized that Horace should cavil at this art in Homer; but indeed he contradicts himself in the very next line: Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum. I grieve if e'er great Homer chance to sleep, Yet slumbers on long works have right to creep.
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