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A man, who admires a fine woman, has yet no more reason to wish himself her husband, than one, who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
A man, who admires a fine woman, has yet no more reason to wish himself her husband, than one, who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1688–1744)
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 91 · printed citation: Alexander Pope. · compiler notes excluded
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