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
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.
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.
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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
dream english-poet men
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
chaos curtain darkness dies dread great lets thy universal
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
age drunk fairly follies folly grace learn leave retirement sober trifle walk whom whose
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.