Note 44 — POPE.
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Elegie on Doctor Wilson. But if Quarles had been led astray by the vices of Donne’s manner, he had good company in Herbert and Vaughan. In common with them, too, he had that luck of simpleness which is even more delightful than wit. In the same poem he says,—
“Go, glorious soul, and lay thy temples down In Abram’s bosom, in the sacred down Of soft eternity.”