As bees, on flowers alighting, cease their hum So, settling upon places, Whigs grow dumb.

But these attempts of mine in the stately Juvenalian style of satire, met with but little success, never having attained, I believe, even the honours of a second edition; and I found that lighter form of weapon, to which I afterwards betook myself, not only more easy to wield, but, from its very lightness, perhaps.

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