Famous John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby Quotes
“There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw.”
Essay on Poetry (published 1723).
Compare:
"'High characters,' cries one, and he would see/ Things that ne’er were, nor are, nor e’er will be", John Suckling, The Goblins, Epilogue.
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,/ Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be", Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 53.
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.”
Essay on Poetry (published 1723).
