Template:RQ:Pope Thebais

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Pope Thebais/documentation.

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Alexander Pope's work The First Book of Statius His Thebais as it appears in the collection called The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1st edition, 1717–1735, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=303–304.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Pope Thebais|page=337|passage=Great was the cauſe; our old '''ſolemnities''' / From no blind zeal or fond tradition riſe, / But ſav'd from death, our '']'' yearly pay / Theſe grateful honours to the God of Day.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Pope Thebais|337|Great was the cauſe; our old '''ſolemnities''' / From no blind zeal or fond tradition riſe, / But ſav'd from death, our '']'' yearly pay / Theſe grateful honours to the God of Day.}}
• Result:
  • c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , published 1717, →OCLC, page 337:

    Great was the cauſe; our old ſolemnities / From no blind zeal or fond tradition riſe, / But ſav'd from death, our Argives yearly pay / Theſe grateful honours to the God of Day.

This quotation template relies on {{RQ:Pope Works}}.