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
hair draws tresses
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
firsts merit dignity
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
animal blood kitchen
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
eggs cooking vulgar
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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.
common education forms twig
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
english-poet faith life modes whose wrong
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
english-poet instead tempts wiser
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.