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Title: A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope

Author: Colley Cibber

Release Date: July 5, 2010 [EBook #33080]

Language: English

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To H. T. Swedenberg, Junior
_founder_, _protector_, _friend_

_He that delights to_ Plant _and_ Set,
_Makes_ After-Ages _in his_ Debt.

Where could they find another formed so fit,
To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?
Were these both wanting, as they both abound,
Where could so firm integrity be found?

The verse and emblem are from George Wither, _A Collection of Emblems,
Ancient and Modern_ (London, 1635), illustration xxxv, page 35.

The lines of poetry (123-126) are from "To My Honoured Kinsman John
Driden," in John Dryden, _The Works of John Dryden_, ed. Sir Walter
Scott, rev. and corr. George Saintsbury (Edinburgh: William Patterson,
1885), xi, 78.

THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

COLLEY CIBBER

A LETTER FROM Mr. _CIBBER_ TO Mr. _POPE_

(1742)

_Introduction by_
HELENE KOON

PUBLICATION NUMBER 158
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
1973

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