The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexande…

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books, p.75
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