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date: 17 May 2025

Samuel Wesley 1662–1735
English clergyman and poet 

  1. Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress,
    Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
     
    ‘An Epistle to a Friend concerning Poetry’ (1700); see Johnson, Pope