Chapter II
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_London_, that vents of _false Ware_ so much Store, In no _Ware_ deceives us more; For Men, led by the _Colour_, and the Shape, Like _Zeuxis' Bird_, fly to the painted Grape. Some things do through our Judgment pass, As through a _Multiplying Glass_: And sometimes, if the _Object_ be too far, We take a _falling Meteor_ for a _Star_.
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An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)Chapter II
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