Sir William Fraser

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    “That most ingenious paradox!
    We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
    But none to beat that paradox!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)