Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 45. Compare Pope's The Odyssey of Homer, Book XVIII, line 269
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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