John Sheffield, 1. Duke of Buckingham and Normanby: Zitate auf Englisch
“There's no such thing in Nature; and you'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw.”
Essay on Poetry (published 1723).
Compare:
"'High characters,' cries one, and he would see/ Things that ne’er were, nor are, nor e’er will be", John Suckling, The Goblins, Epilogue.
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,/ Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be", Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 53.
