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
sick secret letters
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
bible jobs book
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
character men grace
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
kings moments authorship
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
art eagles rome
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
grace argument instruction
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
age want gates
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
reality growth finding-yourself
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
age sickness states
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
perfect judging literature
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
two people choices
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
war delight care
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
self heaven stealing
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
soul paradise shade
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.