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

Note 1543 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)

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Wakefield quotes Horace, Od. ii. 2, or, as Creech puts it in his translation, silver has no brightness,

Unless a moderate use refine, A value give, and make it shine.

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