Creative Quotations from . . .
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744) born on
May 21
English poet. "He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote "The Rape of the Lock," 1714 and "Moral Essays," 1731-35."
 
   
F
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,
No language, but the language of the heart."

R
"Where'er you find `the cooling western breeze',
In the next line, it `whispers through the trees':
If crystal streams `with pleasing murmurs creep',
The reader's threatened, not in vain, with `sleep'."
A
Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
N
"While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."
K
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 398"
R: "An Essay on Criticism, 350"
A: "Moral Essays," III"
N: "An Essay on Criticism, 346"
K: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."



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