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

Note 172 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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"To tempt the sea" is a classical expression, significant of hazard and resolution. Dryden's Iliad:

What now remains But that once more we tempt the wat'ry plains.—Wakefield.

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