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
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
life god nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
nature tongue advantage
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
nature eye angel
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
nature next atoms
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
men world good-nature
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
nature ocean eye
[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
nature children law
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
nature men use
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
nature science night
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
nature exercise imagination
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
nature children fur
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
nature tree robes
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
nature school fool
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.