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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess sing!
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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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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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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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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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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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But still the great have kindness in reserve,
He helped to bury whom he helped to starve.
Of a noble patron
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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If I am right, Thy grace import
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way!
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or (in the midwives' phrase) a quick conception, and an easy delivery.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung,
Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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But where's the man who counsel can bestow,
Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd,
Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;
And all who told it, added something new,
And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,
In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.
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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.
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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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