There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw A faultles… - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC (7 April 1648 – 24 February 1721), English statesman and poet, was the son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, and succeeded to that title on his father’s death in 1658.

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Alternative Names: John Sheffield, 1st Duke of the County of Buckingham and of Normanby • John Sheffield

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.

Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw. - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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