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

Note 53 — SUMMER:

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Virg. Ecl. ii. 68:

Me tamen urit amor, quis enim modus adsit amori?—Pope.

He had Dryden's translation of the passage in Virgil before him:

Cool breezes now the raging heats remove: Ah, cruel heav'n, that made no cure for love.—Wakefield.

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