Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre.
Each exchange of many-colored life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new, And panting time toiled after him in vain.
For we that live to please must please to live.
Vanity of Human Wishes.
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Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.[19]
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail—
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.