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
death pain rage
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
lying fame deathbed
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
death wings victory
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
death youth dies
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
death men suffering
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
luxury disease-and-death succeed
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
death losing-friends lost-friendship
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
english-poet fault hide mercy others teach
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.
censure ten writers-and-writing writes
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
catch flying last lips suck
See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,/ Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!