Zitate von Alexander Pope
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Alexander Pope:
Ordnung ist das erste Gesetz des Himmels.
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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, 5 Tage oder 122.696 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see; And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
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But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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But still the great have kindness in reserve, He helped to bury whom he helped to starve.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Consult the genius of the place in all.