Zitate von Alexander Pope

Informationen über Alexander Pope

Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Herausgeber, Dichter, "Pastorals", "Essay on Criticism", "The Rape of the Lock - Der Lockenraub", "The Dunciad", "Windsor Forest", (England, 1688 - 1744).

Alexander Pope · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Alexander Pope wäre heute 336 Jahre, 8 Monate, 13 Tage oder 122.979 Tage alt.

Geboren am 21.05.1688 in London
Gestorben am 30.05.1744 in Twickenham/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Gentle Dullness ever loves a joke.

  ---

• Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.

  ---

• Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!

  ---

• Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

  ---

• Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.

  ---

• 

  ---

• He knows to live who keeps the middle state.

  ---

• He that would pun would pick a pocket.

  ---

• He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one.

  ---

• He's armed without that's innocent within.

  ---

• Health consists with Temperance alone.

  ---

• Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

  ---

• Hell was built on spite, and Heaven on pride.

  ---

• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  ---

• Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.

  ---

• Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  ---

• Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take-and sometimes tea.

  ---

• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

  ---

• Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

  ---

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

  ---

• How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

  ---