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Alexander Pope: To happy convents,...

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 301
-- 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.


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