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Edmund Waller: The fear of...

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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.

Source: Of Divine Love, cto. 2.
-- Edmund Waller, (Mar 3 1606-1687), English poet; His adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence as the dominant form of poetic expression.


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