| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 3522 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (16881744) |
| QUOTATION: | Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomd his fathers soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 15. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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