No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,
Save he who courts flattery.


Sacred Dramas (1782)


No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts flattery.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts flattery.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts flattery.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts flattery.