"It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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Place of Publication
Dublin
Date
1737, 1743
Metaphor
"It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there."
Metaphor in Context
It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
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Citation
Text from Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by and for M. Pepyat, book-seller, in Castle-Street, 1743). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
See also Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by Sylvanus Pepyat, 1737). <Link to ESTC>
See also Thoughts on Various Subjects. By Alexander Pope, Esq. (Dublin: Printed by Sylvanus Pepyat, 1737). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/09/2017
