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

Note 23 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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This excellent line was perhaps suggested by a fine couplet in Addison's translation of an extract from Silius Italicus:

Stiff with eternal ice, and hid in snow, That fell a thousand centuries ago.

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