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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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