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...morality: Tis not enough your Counsel still be true, Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falshoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot: Without Good Breeding, Truth is disapprov'd; That only makes Superior Sense...

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...teaches, it is only as Pope's critic does, by seeming to remind his audience of what it already knows: Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot. (ll. 575-6) An amateur speaking to fellow amateurs, his claim is not to...

...ratify —at the level of rhyming logic— that very aesthetic "maxim" later to be articulated by Pope: "Men must be taught as if you taught them not, / And things unknown proposed as things forgot" (ll. 574-75). Forgetting is here the very sign, in reception, of what is partly suppressed in the written...

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