"Nature its mother, Habit is its nurse; / Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse; / Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r; / As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sowr; / We wretched subjects tho' to lawful sway, / In this weak queen, some fav'rite still obey."
An Essay on Man; or The First Book of Ethic Epistles to H. St. John L. Bolingbroke
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See <u>An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of Ethic epistles. To Henry St. John, L. Bolingbroke.</u> (London: Printed by John Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T222362">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T202704">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5607">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809206.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>An Essay on Man: In Epistles to a Friend.</u> (Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004826394.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</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).