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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Yet if we look more closely, we shall find / Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: / Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light; / The lines, tho' touch'd but faintly, are drawn right."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1744, 1772, 1795
"For as old Memnon's image, long renown'd / By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch / Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string / Consenting, sounded through the warbling air / Unbidden strains; even so did nature's hand / To certain species of external things, / Attune the finer organs of the ...
preview | full record— Akenside, Mark (1720-1771)
