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

Note 81 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

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So Ovid, exactly, Metam. iv. 287:

causa latet; vis est notissima.—Wakefield.

Duke of Buckingham's Essay on Poetry:

A spirit which inspires the work throughout, As that of nature moves the world about; Itself unseen, yet all things by it shown.

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