There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw.

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Essay on Poetry (published 1723). / Compare: / "'High characters,' cries one, and he would see/ Things that ne’er were, nor are, nor e’er will be", John Suckling, The Goblins, Epilogue. / "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,/ Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be", Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 53.

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