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Quotation from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
“What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,”
The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 1-2 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
The epic opening that sets the scale of the poem.
Citation: "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things," — Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, lines 1-2 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id the-rape-of-the-lock-q1)
