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One who molests a harmless neighbour’s peace, Insults fall’n worth or beauty in distress; Who loves a lie, lame slander heaps about, Who writes a libel, or who copies out.
One who molests a harmless neighbour’s peace, Insults fall’n worth or beauty in distress; Who loves a lie, lame slander heaps about, Who writes a libel, or who copies out.
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
author lifetime midpoint (1688–1744)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 547 · printed citation: Pope · subject: SLANDER
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