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[ 'Belinda:' in 'The Rape of the Lock.']
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[ 'Tips with silver:' occurs also in the famous moonlight scene in the 'Iliad'—]
'Tips with silver every mountain's head.']
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[ 'Adieu!' how like Burns's lines, beginning—]
"But when life's day draws near the gloaming, Farewell to vacant, careless roaming!" &c.]
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[ 'Donne:' Pope, it is said, imitated Donne's 'Satires' to show that celebrated men before him had been as severe as he. Donne was an extraordinary man—first a Roman Catholic, then a barrister, then a clergyman in the Church of England, and Dean of St Paul's,—a vigorous although rude satirist, a fine Latin versifier, the author of many powerful sermons, and of a strange book defending suicide; altogether a strong, eccentric, extravagant genius.]