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"From Whig to Tory"
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"English"
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"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1737, 1743
"We should manage our Thoughts in composing a Poem, as Shepherds do their Flowers in making a Garland; first select the Choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, where they give a Lusture to each other: Like the Feathers in Indian Crowns, which are so managed that every one refle...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)