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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 4 — MESSIAH,

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The pause and words are evidently from Dryden, a greater harmonist, if I may say so, than Pope:

The lovely shrubs and trees that shade the plain, Delight not all.—Bowles.

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