Blot. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Waller.—On Roscommon’s Translation, De Arte Poetica.	1
Ev’n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Pope.—To Augustus, Epistle I. Line 280.	2
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Lyttleton.—Prologue to Thomson’s Coriolanus, Line 23.	3
No song Of mine, from youth to age, has left a stain I would blot out. Bowles.—Barnwell Hill, Part V. Line 218.	4
It is a consolation that from youth to age, I have found no line I wished to blot, or departed a moment from the severer taste which I imbibed from the simplest and purest models of classical composition. Bowles.—Advertisement to St. John in Patmos.	5
I will excuse your blots upon paper, because they are the only blots that you ever did or ever will make. Swift.—To Queensbury, 20th March, 1733.	6