“ No power the muse's friendship can command; No power when virtue claims it, can withstand ”
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734). copy citation
| Author | Alexander Pope |
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| Source | An Essay on Man |
| Topic | friendship virtue |
| Date | 1734 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2428/2428-h/2428-h.htm |
Context
“Enough for half the greatest of these days To 'scape my censure, not expect my praise. And they not rich? what more can they pretend? Dare they to hope a poet for their friend? What Richelieu wanted, Louis scarce could gain, And what young Ammon wished, but wished in vain. No power the muse's friendship can command; No power when virtue claims it, can withstand: To Cato, Virgil paid one honest line; O let my country's friends illumine mine! What are you thinking? F. 'Faith, the thought's no sin: I think your friends are out, and would be in. P. If merely to come in, sir, they go out, The way they take is strangely round about.”
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