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Gender of Author:
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Literary Period:
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733
"My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, / Verse-man or Prose-man, term me which you will."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1743
"When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, / Points him two ways, the narrower is the better."
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