{"id":11113,"date":"2010-11-21T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/21\/a-poem-by-robert-dodsley-1703-1764\/"},"modified":"2010-11-21T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:59:41","slug":"a-poem-by-robert-dodsley-1703-1764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/21\/a-poem-by-robert-dodsley-1703-1764\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem by Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">From <em>The Oxford Book of Short Poems<\/em>, eds. Kavanagh and Michie, OUP 1985, p. 100:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Song<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Man&#39;s a poor deluded bubble,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Wandering in a mist of lies,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Seeing false, or seeing double,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Who would trust to such weak eyes?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Yet, presuming on his senses,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;On he goes, most wondrous wise:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Doubts of truth, believes pretences,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Lost in error lives and dies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Oxford Book of Short Poems, eds. Kavanagh and Michie, OUP 1985, p. 100: Song Man&#39;s a poor deluded bubble,&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Wandering in a mist of lies,Seeing false, or seeing double,&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Who would trust to such weak eyes?Yet, presuming on his senses,&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;On he goes, most wondrous wise:Doubts of truth, believes pretences,&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Lost in error lives and dies. &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}