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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, 3 Tage oder 122.694 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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• Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

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• Destroy his fib, or sophistry; in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again.

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• Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, but like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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• Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.

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• Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.

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• Ev'n copious Dryden, wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot.

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• Expression is the dress of thought.

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• Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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• Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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• False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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• First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force and beauty must to all impart, At once the source and end and test of art.

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• Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

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• Flow Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, Beer, Tho' stale, not ripe; tho' thin, yet neverclear; So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull; Heady, not strong; o'erflowing tho' not full.

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• For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best:

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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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• For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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• For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

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