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

Note 635 — THE ARGUMENT.

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Concannen's Match at Football, Canto iii.:

And drank in poison from her lovely eye.

Creech, at the beginning of his Lucretius:

Where on thy bosom he supinely lies, And greedily drinks love at both his eyes.—Wakefield.

Smith's Phædra and Hippolytus, Act i.:

Drank gorging in the dear delicious poison.—Steevens.

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