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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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