"Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, / Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage."
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
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First published in <u>The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope.</u> (London: printed by W. Bowyer, for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear’s Head in the Strand, and Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, 1717).&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5389">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Alexander Pope.</u> (London: Printed for B. Lintot, Lawton Gilliver, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, and J. Clarke, 1736). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr  i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200463844:2">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u>. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).