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
art soul slides
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
home soul veronica-mars
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
soul poor holes
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
soul superstitions spleen
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
blessing heaven soul
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
winning sight soul
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
soul speed sigh
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
friendship soul faithful
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
art soul genius
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
soul paradise shade
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
soul void craving
No craving void left aching in the soul.
father beer soul
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
wine soul flow
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
charms merit soul strike wins
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul