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Discover Alexander Pope famous and rare quotes. Share Alexander Pope quotations about wit, life and soul. "No one should be ashamed to admit they..."
To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon. Alexander Pope. Life, Morning, Prayer.
Here’s another phrase we can thank Alexander Pope for: to ‘damn with faint praise’. This one is from one of Pope’s verse epistles (letters written as poetry): his ‘Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’, from 1734. ‘What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!’.
296 quotes from Alexander Pope: 'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.', 'To err is human, to forgive, divine.', and 'How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d'
Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
13 maj 2011 · An analysis of the Universal Prayer poem by Alexander Pope including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
25 cze 2024 · Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet , he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.
