But what we can we glean in this vile age
Of chaff, although our gleanings be not grist.
I must not quite omit the talking sage,
Kit-Cat, the famous Conversationist,
Who, in his common-place book, had a page
Prepared each morn for evenings. “List, oh list!”
“Alas, poor ghost!”—What unexpected woes
Await those who have studied their bons-mots!