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catching the idea, even sometimes before it half way reaches me——

I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.

Pope and his Portrait[1] are fools to me———no martyr is ever so full of faith or fire—I wish I could say of good works too—but I have no

Zeal or Anger———or
Anger or Zeal——

And till gods and men agree together to call it by the same name—the errantest Tartuffe, in science—in politics—or in religion, shall never kindle a spark within me, or have a worse word, or a more unkind greeting,than

  1. Vid. Pope's Portrait.