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Date: 1712
"The fair Sicilians now thy Soul inflame; / Why was I born, ye Gods, a Lesbian Dame?"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1715-1720
"'Tis however remarkable that his Fancy, which is every where vigorous, is not discover'd immediately at the beginning of his Poem in its fullest Splendor: It grows in the Progress both upon himself and others, and becomes on Fire like a Chariot-Wheel, by its own Rapidity."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)