Lines Written In Ridicule Of Certain Poems Published In 1777

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Title:     Lines Written In Ridicule Of Certain Poems Published In 1777
Author: Samuel Johnson [More Titles by Johnson]

Wheresor'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new;
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong;
Phrase that time hath flung away,
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.

[The end]
Samuel Johnson's poem: Lines Written In Ridicule Of Certain Poems Published In 1777

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