Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Epistle to Cobham [from Moral Essays]

1734

"And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath, / Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death."

And you! brave Cobham, to the latest breath,
Shall feel your ruling Passion strong in death:
Such in those moments, as in all the past,
"Oh save my Country, Heav'n!" shall be your last.
(ll.262-5, p. 559)

Government::Rule and Subjection::Rule of Passion

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At least 40 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1733, 1734, 1735, 1736, 1737, 1739, 1744, 1747, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1762, 1764, 1769, 1770, 1776, 1777, 1780, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1793, 1797, 1800).

See An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham. By Mr. Pope. (London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1733 [1734]). <Link to ESTC>

Text from The Works of Alexander Pope (London: Printed for B. Lintot, Lawton Gilliver, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). <Link to LION> [Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Viscount Cobham.]

Reading The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).

Ruling Passion

05/25/2004