Date: 1785
"Threads of politic and shrewd design" that charge the mind with meanings may be (or not, as it were) disentangled from "the puzzled skein"
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Date: 1796
"WIT on all points is out of season, / It's use is to embroider reason."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)
Date: 1796
"Good sense like cloth, the ground-work place, / And then sow on your Wit and lace."
preview | full record— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)