discedas

Updated: May 23, 2025

My poetry was now the jest of every company, except some few who spoke of it with detestation; and I found that, instead of recommending me to preferment, it had effectually barred me from all probability of attaining it. "These discouragements had now induced me to lay down my pen and write no more. But, as Juvenal says, Si discedas, Laqueo tenet ambitiosi Consuetudo mali.

Henry Fielding - A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2