Nothing occasional. No haste. No rivals. No compulsion.
Practised only one form of verse. Facility from use. Emulated
former pieces. Cooper's-hill. Dryden's ode. Affected to disdain
flattery. _Not happy in his selection of patrons_. _Cobham,
Bolingbroke_.[260] _Cibber's abuse will be better to him than
a dose of hartshorn_. Poems long delayed. Satire and praise
late, alluding to something past. He had always some poetical
plan in his head.[261] Echo to the sense. Would not constrain
himself too much. Felicities of language. Watts.[262] Luxury of
language. _Motives to study; want of health, want of money;
helps to study; some small patrimony_. _Prudent and frugal_;
pint of wine.