Frases de Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope es uno de los poetas ingleses más reconocidos del siglo XVIII, destacado particularmente por sus traducciones de los textos de Homero y su poesía satírica.

✵ 21. mayo 1688 – 30. mayo 1744
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Frases célebres de Alexander Pope

“Las palabras son como las hojas. Cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.”

Sin fuentes
Variante: Las palabras son como las hojas; cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.

Frases de hombres de Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope Frases y Citas

“Errar es humano, perdonar es divino, rectificar es de sabios.”
Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare dementis.

“Los necios admiran, los sensatos aprueban.”

Sin fuentes

“En el vasto océano de la vida de diversas formas navegamos, la razón es la carta, pero la pasión son los vientos.”

Fuente: [Amate Pou] (2017), p. 117. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=MHJNDwAAQBAJ&q=carta#v=snippet&q=carta&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 21 de noviembre de 2019.

“El pueblo es una fiera de múltiples cabezas.”

Sin fuentes

Alexander Pope: Frases en inglés

“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).

“Tell me, my soul, can this be death?”

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)

“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?”

Fuente: 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.

“The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?”

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!”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

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)

“The sick in body call for aid: the sick
In mind are covetous of more disease;
And when at worst, they dream themselves quite well.
To know ourselves diseased, is half our cure.”

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.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto IV, line 123.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.”

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.

“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

Alexander Pope Moral Essays

Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
Moral Essays (1731–1735)

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