| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 3544 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (16881744) |
| QUOTATION: | But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoeer offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 76. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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