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"English"
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"An Essay on Man; or The First Book of Ethic Epistles to H. St. John L. Bolingbroke"
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"Early Modern"
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Date: 1733-4
"Self-Love but serves the virtuous Mind to wake, / As the small Pebble stirs the peaceful Lake, / The Centre mov'd, a Circle strait succeeds, / Another still, and still another spreads."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)