"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"
Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle
At least 10 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1735, 1748, 1751, 1755 1758, 1765, 1766, 1775, 1782).<br>
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See <u>Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42091">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB132816259&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Robert Dodsley's <u>A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands</u> (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004887768.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;