Frases de Alexander Pope (187 citas, página 5)

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.

De vida , Pasión

“La naturaleza y sus leyes yacían escondidas en la oscuridad: dijo Dios ¡que Newton sea! y todo se iluminó.”

Alexander Pope

Sin fuentes

De Dios , De leyes , Naturaleza

“Todo nuestro conocimiento es conocernos a nosotros mismos.”

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Sin fuentes

Conocimiento

“Haz bien tu parte. En eso reside todo el honor.”

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Sin fuentes

De arte

“El que dice una mentira no se da cuenta del trabajo que emprende, pues tiene que inventar otras mil para sostener la primera.”

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Sin fuentes

De mentira

“No es tanto el estar exento de faltas lo que nos aprovecha como el haber sabido vencerlas.”

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Sin fuentes

“La verdadera facilidad en el escribir deriva del arte, no del acaso.”

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Sin fuentes

De arte , De verdad

“Las diversiones constituyen la felicidad de quienes no saben pensar.”

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Sin fuentes

De fe , De felicidad/suerte

“Una verdad está clara: lo que es, es cierto.”

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Sin fuentes

De verdad

“Gana riqueza y posición, si es posible, con gracia; pero si no, gánalos como sea.”

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Sin fuentes

Riqueza

“El pueblo es una fiera de múltiples cabezas.”

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Alexander Pope: Frases en inglés

“Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,
The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;
Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,
They fall, and leave their little lives in air.”

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Alexander Pope libro Windsor Forest

Fuente: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 131.

“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can.”

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Statement of 1739, as quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence, p. 286.
Variant reported in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887) by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451: "True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
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“Methinks God has punish'd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolv'd, that half to be more than the whole.”

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In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.

“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”

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Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).

“This casket India's glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”

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Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 134.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

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Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 21.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.”

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"Ode on Solitude", st. 1 (c. 1700).

“Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

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Alexander Pope Pastorals

Autumn.
Pastorals (1709)

“Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”

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"Umbra", first published in Miscellanies (1727).

“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”

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"A Farewell to London" (1715), st. 1.

“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”

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Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.

“How vast a memory has Love!”

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"Sappho to Phaon", line 52 (1712).

“Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again,
Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.”

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Alexander Pope libro Windsor Forest

Fuente: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 11.

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”

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Closing line.
The Temple of Fame (1711)

“Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”

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Alexander Pope Pastorals

Summer, line 73.
Pastorals (1709)

“Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.”

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Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto I, line 15.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The fall of favourites, projects of the great,
Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.”

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Fuente: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 449-458.

“I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

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Letter to Edward Blount (27 August 1714); a similar expression in "Thoughts on Various Subjects" in Swift's Miscellanies (1727): Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

“A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.”

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Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687); Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule IV.
Misattributed

“Well, if our author in the wife offends
He has a husband that will make amends;
He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,
And sure such kind good creatures may be living.”

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Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).

“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”

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Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto II, line 7.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.”

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Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“The famous Lord Hallifax (though so much talked of) was rather a pretender to taste, than really possessed of it.—When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad, that lord, "desired to have the pleasure of hearing them read at his house." Addison, Congreve, and Garth, were there at the reading.—In four or five places, Lord Hallifax stopped me very civilly; and with a speech, each time of much the same kind: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.—Be so good as to mark the place, and consider it a little at your leisure.—I am sure you can give it a little turn."—I returned from Lord Hallifax's with Dr. Garth, in his chariot; and as we were going along, was saying to the doctor, that my lord had laid me under a good deal of difficulty, by such loose and general observations; that I had been thinking over the passages almost ever since, and could not guess at what it was that offended his lordship in either of them.—Garth laughed heartily at my embarrassment; said, I had not been long enough acquainted with Lord Hallifax, to know his way yet: that I need not puzzle myself in looking those places over and over when I got home. "All you need do, (said he) is to leave them just as they are; call on Lord Hallifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages; and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."—I followed his advice; waited on Lord Hallifax some time after: said, I hoped he would find his objections to those passages removed[; ] read them to him exactly as they were at first; and his lordship was extremely pleased with them, and cried out, "Ay now, Mr. Pope, they are perfectly right! nothing can be better."”

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As quoted in Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence [published from the original papers; with notes, and a life of the author, by Samuel Weller Singer]; "Spence's Anecdotes", Section IV. pp. 134–136.
Attributed

“By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.”

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Fuente: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”

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"Ode on Solitude", st. 5 (c. 1700).

“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”

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Alexander Pope Pastorals

Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)

“On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.”

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Fuente: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 37.

“For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”

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Imitation of Martial, reported in Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence (1737), Vol. V, p. 232; The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 117. Compare: "Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui" (Translated: "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice"), Martial, X, 237.; "Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race", Abraham Cowley, Discourse XI, Of Myself, stanza xi.