Note 34 — Chapter I · THE SATIRIC SPIRIT
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.
He adds, as to motive:
“Yet malice never was his aim; He lash’d the vice, but spared the name; ***** His satire points at no defect, But what all mortals may correct; For he abhorr’d that senseless tribe Who call it humour when they gibe: ***** True genuine dullness moved his pity, Unless it offer’d to be witty.”