“Truth is the trial of itself
And needs no other touch,
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.”
The Touchstone of Truth (1624), lines 1-4
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And needs no other touch,
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much." by Ben Jonson?
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“Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd;
The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.”
Alexander Pope
(1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet" (1730).
Context: So unaffected, so compos'd a mind;
So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so retin'd;
Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd;
The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
“So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
Alexander Pope
(1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
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.
Context: Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd,
And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
