“Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.”

— Alexander Pope

Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Chap. xi, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 196.

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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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