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"To the Critics"
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Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"Tutors, like Virtuoso's, oft inclin'd / By strange transfusion to improve the mind, / Draw off the sense we have, to pour in new; / Which yet with all their skill, they ne'er could do."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"For as in Bodies, thus in Souls, we find / What wants in Blood and Spirits, swell'd with Wind: / Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our Defence, / And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense!"
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1725
"He must be a Master of the Science; and be able to lead a Reader, knowingly, thro’ that Labyrinth of the Passions, which fill the Heart of Man, and make him either a noble or a despicable Creature."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
