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
children writing numbers
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
faith made enormous
The enormous faith of many made for one.
wind sea world
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
christian hope pain
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
money riches enjoy
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
memories past men
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
expression easy conversation
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
family commonwealth
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
marriage hands wife
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
brother made plague
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.