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

Note 39 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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Wakefield quotes from Milton (Par. Lost, ii. 4), the expression, "barbaric pearl and gold," and from Addison's translation of the second book of Ovid's Met. the line in which it is said that the palace of the sun

With burnished gold and flaming jewels blazed.

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