By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ✨ Alexan…

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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ✨ Alexander Pope (1825). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, p.265
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. ✨ To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. ✨ Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (e … ▶
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life, p.5
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. ✨ 1734 Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174-8.

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