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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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Date: 1733-4
"As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care / On savage stocks inserted learn to bear; / The surest Virtues thus from Passions shoot, / Wild Nature's vigor working at the root."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1733-4
"Th' Eternal Art educing good from ill, / Grafts on this Passion our best principle: / 'Tis thus the Mercury of Man is fix'd, / Strong grows the Virtue with his nature mix'd."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
