Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits-a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)

Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits-a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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