Charles Caleb Colton Quote

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.