Cowper: Conversation, line 303.

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Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est

Vivere bis vita posse priore frui

(The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice).—Martial: x. 237.

See Cowley, page [262].

[336:4] From Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. v. p. 376; originally printed in Motte's "Miscellanies," 1727. In the edition of 1736 Pope says, "I must own that the prose part (the Thought on Various Subjects), at the end of the second volume, was wholly mine. January, 1734."

[337:1] The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii. line 366.

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A mass enormous! which in modern days