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   Discover Alexander Pope famous and rare quotes. Share Alexander Pope quotations about wit, life and soul. "The only time you run out of chances..."

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   • “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ― Alexander Pope.
   • “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism.
   • “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”
   • “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” ― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock.

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   Discover some of the most famous and influential lines by the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope, from his essays, epistles, and mock-heroic poems. Learn about his wit, wisdom, and legacy in English literature and language.

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   Enjoy the best Alexander Pope Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Alexander Pope, English Poet, Born May 21, 1688. Share with your friends.

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   Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

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   The most beautiful of poets.

   I look upon a proper appreciation of Pope as a touchstone of taste.

   The Iliad and the Odyssey, in his hands, have no more the air of antiquity than if he had himself invented them.

   A young, squab, short gentleman, whose outward form, though it should be that of downright monkey, would not differ so much from human shape as his unthinking immaterial part does from human unders...

   The little gentleman ... with a most comical and unparalleled assurance, has undertaken to translate Homer from Greek, of which he does not know one word, into English, which he understands almost...

   Who is this Pope that I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will not my subjects write in prose?

   Pope was not content to satisfy; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do his best: he did not court the candour, but dared the judgement of his reader, and, expecting no indulge...

   Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed and new scenes of imagery displayed...

   The verses, when they were written, resemble nothing so much as spoonfuls of boiling oil, ladled out by a fiendish monkey at an upstairs window upon such passers-by whom the wretch had a grudge aga...

   In Pope, I cannot read a line, But with a sigh, I wish it mine: When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six: It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, Pox take him, and his wit.

   He is in my opinion the most elegant, the most correct poet; and at the same time the most harmonious...that England ever gave birth to.

   Of all his works he was most proud of his garden.

   There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

   As far as Pope goes, he succeeds; but his Homer is not Homer, but Pope.

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   Alexander Pope: Biography, Works, Articles and Quotes at Luminarium.

   Books and Writers - Alexander Pope (1688-1744).

   Island of Freedom - Alexander Pope (1688-1744).

   THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, Volume IX: English FROM STEELE AND ADDISON TO POPE AND SWIFT.

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   Browse over 550 sourced quotes by the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) on topics such as man, god, nature, government, and more. Find famous lines from his works such as An Essay on Criticism, An Essay on Man, and The Rape of the Lock.

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   Forgiveness. To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism. Generations. We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow; Our Wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism. Honesty. An honest man's the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man. Honor.