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 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.  
 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. 
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
And hold up to the sun my little taper.
 Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the 
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall read more 
 Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the 
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them 
as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and 
feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones. 
 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the 
point of a diamond: it read more 
 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the 
point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, 
and upon the horns of your altars;
 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by 
the green trees upon the high hills. 
 As so I penned
 It down, until at last it came to be,
  For length and breadth, read more 
 As so I penned
 It down, until at last it came to be,
  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. 
 The book that he has made renders its author this service in 
return, that so long as the book read more 
 The book that he has made renders its author this service in 
return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains 
immortal and cannot die. 
 That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most 
knowledge, and takes from him the least time.  
 That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most 
knowledge, and takes from him the least time. 
Smelling of the lamp.
Smelling of the lamp.
 But every fool describes, in these bright days,
 His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
  And spawns read more 
 But every fool describes, in these bright days,
 His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--
   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.