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
long acting serious
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
wife long ease
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
wise long age
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
life science long
This long disease, my life.
birthday long heaven
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
song long sacred
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
long doubt sides
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
long sun corruption
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
inspirational honesty long
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
birthday count grateful
PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
spring judging deeds
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
shining poetry brighter
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.