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
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
catch flying last lips suck
See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,/ Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!
english-poet last lay nor rule whom
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
lasts next fool
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
change lasts firsts
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
lasts each-day critics
And make each day a critic on the last.
past lasts argument
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
dying famous-last-words hundred
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
character past lasts
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
past politics lasts
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
song snakes lasts
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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.