"But if in noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purg'd off, of spleen and sour disdain; / Discharge that rage on more provoking crimes,  / Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times."
An Essay on Criticism
Over 30 entries in ESTC. (1711, 1713, 1714, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1722, 1728, 1736, 1737, 1741, 1744, 1745, 1749, 1751, 1754, 1758, 1765, 1770, 1774, 1777, 1782, 1796).<br>
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<u>An Essay on Criticism.</u> (London: Printed for W. Lewis, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N31901">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tt4NAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809177.0001.000">Link to 2nd edition in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Originally searching through Stanford's HDIS installation of the Chadwyck-Healey database (which indexes a text from the 1736 <u>Works</u>. Some text drawn from ECCO-TCP edition.