"If Momus’s project had taken, of having windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further, and making those windows casements: that while a man showed his heart to all the world, he might do something more for his friends, e’en take it out, and trust to their handling."
Letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (August, 1716)
See <u>Letters of Mr Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, From the Year 1705, to 1735. Vol. I.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, 1735), letter 15, 1:151-5. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW125697602&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;