About Richard Savage: Richard Savage is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, (originally published anonymously in 1744), on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
