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

Note 97 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.

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Pope took the expression from Dryden, Virg. Æn. vii. 79:

One only daughter heired the royal state.

And ver. 367:

Only one daughter heirs my crown and state.

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