Goldsmith's celebrated lines

Man wants but little here below

Nor wants that little long,

are stolen from Young; who has

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

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The character of the ancient Bacchus, that graceful divinity, seems to

have been little understood by Dryden. The line in Virgil

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