The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Alexis Piron (16891773)Lines on the French Academy
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The authors who pen pond’rous writings to cure.
An “Academy” welcomes the tedious man,
And there he does nothing but doze fast and sure:
For to genius the sleep of that place is as dead
As to love is the sleep of the conjugal bed.