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
Poema de Alexander Pope, citado no filme "Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem lembranças"
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
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
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
Une oeuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, part VII: Time Regained, chapter III, "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes" ( French version http://web.archive.org/web/20010708070436/http://gallica.bnf.fr/proust/TempsRetrouve.htm and English translation http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96t/chapter3.html).
Misattributed
“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;
In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.”
"Epitaph on Gay" (1733), lines 1-2. Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 818. Compare: "Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child", John Dryden, Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew, line 70.
“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721).
“The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.”
Autumn, line 70.
Pastorals (1709)
Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)
Fonte: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 6.
“Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung,
Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.”
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" preface to Thomas Parnell's Poems on Several Occasions (1721).
“What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?”
Fonte: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 1. Compare: "What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?", Ben Jonson, Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
Fonte: The Temple of Fame (1711), Line 513.
the last two lines are a quote of 1 Corinthians 15:55 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Corinthians#15:55.
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
“But when mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
Canto III, line 125.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Passions…are the gales of life…”
As quoted by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke in a letter to Jonathan Swift (29 March 1730).
Attributed
“This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew.”
As quoted in various reports, including Charles Wells Moulton, The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (1901), p. 342; William Dunlap, The Life of George Frederick Cooke (1815), p. 26 (quoting an apparently contemporaneous journal account by the subject). Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition (1919), reports that on the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice". Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,—
“This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew!”
It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne", Biographia Dramatica, vol. i. part II. p. 469.
Attributed
“Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.”
From Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. v. p. 376; originally printed in Motte's Miscellanies (1727). In the edition of 1736 Pope says, "I must own that the prose part (the Thought on Various Subjects), at the end of the second volume, was wholly mine. January, 1734".
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Fonte: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 71.
Canto III, line 153.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Edward Young, "Night Thoughts," (1742-1745) Part IX http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/young_night_thoughts.pdf.
Misattributed
“Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.”
Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Chap. xi, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 196.
“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”
Pope's reply when told by his physician that he was better, on the morning of his death (30 May 1744), as quoted by Owen Ruffhead in The Life of Alexander Pope; With a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius (1769), p. 475.
“Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.”
Canto IV, line 123.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Spence's Anecdotes and The Guardian (21 May 1713); as quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating https://archive.org/stream/ethicsofdietcate00will/ethicsofdietcate00will#page/n3/mode/2up by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), p. 132.
Samuel Rogers, in The Pleasures of Memory (1792), Part http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13586/.
Misattributed
“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
Moral Essays (1731–1735)