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1 " For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. "
― Alexander Pope , The Complete Works Of Alexander Pope [Annotated]
2 " But always think the last opinion right. "
3 " To err is human—to forgive divine. "
4 " Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn, 105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o’er my urn; "
5 " Elkanah Settle, celebrated as Doeg in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, wrote Successio in honor of the incoming Brunswick dynasty. Warburton (or possibly Pope) in a note on Dunciad, I. 181, says that the poem was ‘written at fourteen years old, and soon after printed.’ A good instance of Pope’s economy of material will be found in the passage upon which that note bears: an adaptation of lines 4, 17 and 18 of this early poem. It was first published in Lintot’s Miscellanies, 1712. "