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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
If parts allure...
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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind:
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell damned to everlasting fame.
Source: An Essay on Man, IV. 281
-- 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.