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Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Herausgeber, Dichter, "Pastorals", "Essay on Criticism", "The Rape of the Lock - Der Lockenraub", "The Dunciad", "Windsor Forest", (England, 1688 - 1744).
Alexander Pope · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Alexander Pope wäre heute 335 Jahre, 11 Monate, 27 Tage oder 122.718 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
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Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends on their conciseness.
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns.
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Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke!
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?
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Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a man; simplicity, a child; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the age.
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Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Oh happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature, law: All then is full, possessing, and possessed, No craving void left aching in the breast.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers of loud huzzas.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead- And-Betty-give this cheek a little red.
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Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.
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Order is Heavens' first law.
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Our Gen'rals now, retired to their estates, Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates, In life's cool ev'ning satiate of applause.
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Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.