Two Miltons in separate ages were born: The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got, Though the other had talents the world to adorn, This lives by hi… - Theodore Hook

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Two Miltons in separate ages were born:
The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got,
Though the other had talents the world to adorn,
This lives by his mews, which the other could not!

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Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius.

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Alternative Names: Theodore Edward Hook
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An arch wag has declar'd, that he truly can say
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Shelley styles his new poem "Prometheus Unbound,"
And 'tis like to remain so while time circles round;
For surely an age would be spent in the finding
A reader so weak as to pay for the binding!
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