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(Original engl.: "I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time, by Rev. Joseph Spence. Now first published from the Original Papers, with Notes, and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. Edinburgh 1820, p. 54. Siehe auch The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Nine Volumes, Complete, Volume the Second. London 1797. p. 403) (de) |
