John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3540 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3540 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | That not in fancy’s maze he wander’d long, But stoop’d to truth, and moraliz’d his song. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 340. |
| Note 1. See Spenser, Quotation 1. [back] |