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Alexander Pope's epigrams... ― Александр Поуп
In 1736, Alexander Pope's Great Dane, Bounce, whelped—and the poet gave one of its puppies to Frederick, Prince of Wales, whose estate was in the Kew district of London. Pope wrote a poem and had it engraved on a beautiful collar he put around the dog's neck. The idea was that a courtier, possibly a duke or earl, would notice the collar, kneel down, pet the dog, and read the challenging inscription. Notice, however, that, for us, Pope's poem exists not on a collar but as an "epigram" (published...0 відповідей
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