Comprehensive information about Alexander Pope including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.. English poet This educational Alexander Pope resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Go to Quote / Comment
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. Go to Quote / Comment
Die of a rose in aromatic pain? Go to Quote / Comment
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. Go to Quote / Comment
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Go to Quote / Comment