"Some hurt themselves by flippant WIT, / As too much GAS, balloons will split;-- / With buoyant splendour, up they rise, / The spirit bursts, the bubble dies."
Cowley's Ode on Wit, Paraphrased [from Juvenile Poems]
John Lees Courtenay, <u>Juvenile Poems</u> (London: J. Jones, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HlICAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>