Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Essay on Criticism. Part iii. Line 180.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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