Alexander Pope Quote

Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill
Style the divine, the matchless, what you will)
For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight,
And grew immortal in his own despite.


Imitations of Horace Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 69


Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And...

Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And...

Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And...

Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And...