Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

Labour, and Genius: Or, the Mill-Stream, and the Cascade. A Fable Inscribed to William Shenstone, Esq. [from Poems, moral and descriptive. By the late Richard Jago ... (Prepared for the press, and improved by the author, before his death.) To which is added, some account of the life and writings of Mr. Jago]

London

Printed for J. Dodsley [etc.]

1784

"Nor is it thinking much, but doing, / That keeps our tenements from ruin"

Nature, with lib'ral hand, dispenses
Her apparatus of the senses,
In articles of gen'ral use,
Nerves, sinews, muscles, bones profuse.
Distinguishing her fav'rite race
With form erect, and featur'd face:
The flowing hair, the polish'd skin--
But, for the furniture within,
Whether it be of brains, or lead,
What matters it, so there's a head?
For wisest noddle seldom goes,
But as 'tis led by corp'ral nose.
Nor is it thinking much, but doing,
That keeps our tenements from ruin.
And hundreds eat, who spin, or knit,
For one that lives by dint of wit.

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