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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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