No place so sacred from such fops is barred,
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard;
Nay lay to alters; there they'll talk you dead,
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.


An Essay on Criticism (1711)


No place so sacred from such fops is barred, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard; Nay lay to alters; there they'll talk you dead,...

No place so sacred from such fops is barred, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard; Nay lay to alters; there they'll talk you dead,...

No place so sacred from such fops is barred, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard; Nay lay to alters; there they'll talk you dead,...

No place so sacred from such fops is barred, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard; Nay lay to alters; there they'll talk you dead,...