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NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, “Most Women have no Characters at all.” Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish’d by black, brown, or fair. How many pictures of one Nymph we view, All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia’s Countess, here, in ermin’d pride, Is, there, Pastora by a fountain side.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet • "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1727)

Charity May 26th, 2008 “In faith and hope the world will disagree; but all mankind’s concern is charity.”-Alexander Pope. Tags: Alexander Pope, charity, faith, hope Posted in Motivation, Quote | No Comments »

born 320 years ago today “What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.” - from “Universal Prayer” 1738

Pondering for the Day: Alexander Pope (A Writer of Note) The Free Dictionary...Pope, recognized as the greatest English poet of the 18th century, was almost entirely self-taught. He established his poetic reputation with the precocious Pastorals (1709) and An Essay on Criticism (1711).

Here's some good didactic poetry for you. Study up, lest you wind up drunk on shallow draughts. A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing Alexander Pope A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. ~Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard I am currently reading a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Alison Weir.

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After reading Alexander Pope's variations on Horace, I went to my bookshelf and pulled off a book that had been on it for a while: David Ferry's translations of Horace's Epistles. There's a reason people have been reading Horace for two thousand years: the poems are absolutely splendid.

I was struck by the three lines from Pope's "Essay on Criticism" that have become proverbial, and one thing I noted in "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," the first of his "Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated," was the appearance of the phrase "Damn with faint praise"; later, a line appears that reminded