Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
god wise men
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
birthday long heaven
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
death wings victory
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
wise dream sky
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
love sin offence
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
life passion gale
Passions are the gales of life.
sunshine joy heartfelt
The soul's calm sunshine and heartfelt joy.
virtue
Virtue alone is happiness below.
spring blood wings
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
tea three sometimes
Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
art soul genius
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
love wings air
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
struggle fall fate
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
wise lying pride
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.