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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3601
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Eloisa to Abelard. Line 273.
 
Note 1.
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1. [back]
 

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