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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10), Poetry - Volume 2

Note 112 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

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Another couplet originally followed here:

But care in poetry must still be had; It asks discretion ev'n in running mad: And though, &c.

which is the insanire cum ratione taken from Terence by Horace, at Sat. ii. 3, 271.—Wakefield.

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