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Alexander Pope

✵ 21. Maio 1688 – 30. Maio 1744
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Alexander Pope Frases famosas

“A luz e as trevas estão misturadas no caos do homem.”

This light and darkness in our chaos join'd
"Essay on Man" in: "The Works of Alexander Pope", Esq: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks‎ - vol. 5, Página 105 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=KCQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA105, Printed for J. Rivington,

Citações de homens de Alexander Pope

“Feliz do homem que não espera nada, pois nunca terá desilusões.”

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
carta de 6 de outubro de 1727, in: "The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes." - Página 126 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=V0oVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA126, Alexander Pope - 1751

Alexander Pope frases e citações

“Errar é humano; perdoar é divino.”

To err is human, to forgive divine
"Essay on Criticism" [Ensaio sobre a crítica] ( Escrito no Ano MDCCIX, http://books.google.com.br/books?id=O0IfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=To+err+is+human,+to+forgive+divine+Alexander+Pope&lr=&client=firefox-a#PPA169,M1 primeira publicação na Spectator, N º 65, 15 de maio de 1711); in: "The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq" http://books.google.com.br/books?id=O0IfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA241&dq=To+err+is+human,+to+forgive+divine+Alexander+Pope&lr=; Por Alexander Pope, Joseph Warton; Publicado por Printed for B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797, página 236

“Uma pessoa honesta é a obra mais maravilhosa de Deus.”

An honest man's the noblest work of God
"Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man with repect to Happiness"; in http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ZGRj7T5ZrFMC&pg=PA143&dq=%22An+honest+man%27s+the+noblest+work+of+God%22+Alexander+Pope&lr=&as_brr=3: "The Works of Alexander Pope"; Por Alexander Pope, Joseph Warton; Publicado por Printed by J.F. Dove for Richard Priestley, 1822; página 143

“Feliz quem seus prazeres e cuidados a alguns hectares paternos limita, contente em respirar o ar nativo em sua própria terra.”

Happy the man, whose wish and care. A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground.
Letters of Alexander Pope and several eminent persons from the year 1705 to 1735 - Página 64 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=u075WPEcfDQC&pg=PA64, Alexander Pope - 1735 - 266 páginas

“Aquele que diz uma mentira não sabe a tarefa que assumiu, porque está obrigado a inventar vinte vezes mais para sustentar a certeza da primeira.”

Variante: Aquele que diz uma mentira não calcula a pesada carga que põe em cima de si, pois tem de inventar infinidade delas para sustentar a primeira.

Alexander Pope: Frases em inglês

“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Fonte: An Essay on Criticism

“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”

and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.

“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”

Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709).
Fonte: Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published

“And die of nothing but a rage to live”

Alexander Pope Moral Essays

Variante: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Fonte: Moral Essays

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Fonte: An Essay on Man

“This long disease, my life.”

Fonte: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope

“Whatever is, is right.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Fonte: An Essay on Man

“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 1.
Fonte: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell:
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you;
'T was a fat oyster,—live in peace,—adieu.”

Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 832: "Verbatim from Boileau", written c. 1740, published 1741.. Compare: "Tenez voilà", dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille, Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais; Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix", Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux, Epître II. (à M. l'Abbé des Roches).

“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 46.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”

"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 369.

“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”

Fonte: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 57.

“Each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend.”

"Epistle to Mr. Jervas" (1717), lines 21–22.