"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."
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.