Note 1535 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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This resembles some lines in Roscommon's Essay:
That wretch, in spite of his forgotten rhymes, Condemned to live to all succeeding times.—Wakefield.
Pope's examples would not bear out his language unless Bacon and Cromwell were generally reprobated, whereas both have distinguished champions and innumerable adherents.