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
compass ends regard
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
teaching heart design
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
home soul veronica-mars
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
character pride dust
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
dresses different wonder
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
soul poor holes
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
thinking sky dies
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
kings government divine
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
honest fame let-me
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
men insult swearing
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
heart gay joy
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
men he-man lost
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
book men clothes
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
wise fate law
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.