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
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes."

R
While pensive poets painful vigils keep
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
A
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
N
"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst and now a world."
K
"When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Pastorals, `Summer', 73"
R: "The Dunciad, Bk i. 93"
A: "Moral Essays," II"
N: "An Essay on Man, I. 87"
K: "Thoughts on Various Subjects.""



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