"To aid our cause, if Heav'n thou can'st not bend, Hell thou shalt move."
— The Dunciad

January 1, 1970

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PoetryWorks by Alexander PopeSatire in fiction
Original Language: English

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Book III, line 307, a translation of Virgil, Aeneid, vii, 312: "Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."