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 dobedobedo rated 5 months ago - Born Today
Alexander Pope
(21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century,
best known for his satirical verse
and for his translation of Homer.
He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespea...
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- dobedobedo rated 5 months ago
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Alexander Pope
(21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century,
best known for his satirical verse
and for his translation of Homer.
He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
* Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
o Ode on Solitude, st. 1 (c. 1700).
* Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus unlamented let me die,
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
o Ode on Solitude, st. 5 (c. 1700).
* They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
o The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer (c.1704, published 1713), line 103.
* The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.
The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer (c.1704, published 1713), lines 298-299.
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