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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee;
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Music resembles poetry; in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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By mutual confidence, and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made...
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By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
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Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; 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: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome. No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
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To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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A spring there is, whose silver waters show Clear as a glass the shining sands below: A flowering lotos spreads its arms above, Shades all the banks, and seems itself a grove.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light.
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Alexander Pope
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
Bio:
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.
Known for:
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism
The Dunciad
Eloisa to Abelard
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