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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Expression is the dress of thought, and still / Appears more decent, as more suitable."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1779, 1781
"Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanicks, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
