Authors:
  • Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
    Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
    Better be born with taste to little rent
    Than the dull monarch of a continent;
    Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
    Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
    No.

    John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.89