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
men want he-man
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
wit zeal
I have more zeal than wit.
skills want virtue
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
zephyr breathe shrouds
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
blow zephyr strain
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
wind sea world
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
cheerful rays morrow
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
lord swine hog
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
advice niggard worst
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
agriculture soil toil
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
laughter ambition son
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
ocean ambition hands
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
giving charity littles
I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
christian believe sleep
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.