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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 283.
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