Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Quotes - Page 2

• You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Art, Style, Gains

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• Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Fiction, Pieces, Uniforms

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• Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Race, Years, Succeed

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• Praise Him, each savage furious beast
  That on His stores do daily feast;
  And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
  Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Savages, Knees, Bows

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• Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Writing, Sound, Judgment

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.229

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