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

Note 162 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

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If Pope's maxim was universally obeyed no new word could be introduced. Dryden was more judicious. "When I find," he said, "an English word significant and sounding, I neither borrow from the Latin nor any other language; but when I want at home I must seek abroad."

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