Mountains of Whimseys, heaped in his own Brain, Stumbling from thought to thought, falls headlong down Into Doubt’s boundless Sea, where like to drown, Books bear him up a while, and make him try To swim with Bladders of Philosophy,
ATTRIBUTION:
John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680), British poet. A Satire against Mankind (l. 17–21). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.
