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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
Good God! how...
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Source: Letter, 5 Dec. 1732, to poet and author Jonathan Swift, the day after the death of playwright John Gay.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.