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Quotes from The Dunciad — Alexander Pope

1688–1744 England

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How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.

The Dunciad (1728)

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

The Dunciad (1728)

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.

The Dunciad (1813)

Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls,
And makes night hideous;—Answer him, ye owls!

The Dunciad (1813)

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with whom shall end.

The Dunciad (1813)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Pope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.