Frasi di Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope è stato un poeta inglese, considerato uno dei maggiori del XVIII secolo.

Più noto per la sua vena satirica che per il suo importante lavoro di traduzione dell'opera di Omero, ha rappresentato una svolta per la letteratura inglese, al punto da essere il terzo autore più citato per il Dizionario di Oxford delle citazioni, dopo William Shakespeare e Alfred Tennyson. Pope è anche noto per l'utilizzo del distico eroico. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Maggio 1688 – 30. Maggio 1744
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Alexander Pope frasi celebri

“Errare è umano, perdonare è divino.”

da An Essay on Criticism, 1711, II parte, riga 325
Variante: Errare è umano, perdonare divino.

“Benedetto l'uomo che non si aspetta nulla, perché non resterà mai deluso.”

da Thoughts on Various Subjects

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Frasi su Dio di Alexander Pope

“Un uomo onesto è l'opera più nobile di Dio.”

Saggio sull'uomo

“Lo stato di natura era il regno di Dio… | L'uomo camminava con la bestia, condividendone il rifugio, | la sua stessa tavola e il suo stesso letto; | nutrendosi e vestendosi senza uccidere…”

Saggio sull'uomo
Origine: Citato in Andrew Linzey, Teologia animale, traduzione di Alessandro Arrigoni, Cosmopolis, Torino, 1998, p. 56. ISBN 978-88-87947-01-4

Alexander Pope Frasi e Citazioni

“Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! | Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata. | Infinita letizia della mente candida! | Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.”

Variante: Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale!
Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata.
Infinita letizia della mente candida!
Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.

“L'ordine è la prima legge del Cielo.”

Saggio sull'uomo

“Chi dovrà decidere, se dei dottori sono in disaccordo?”

da Moral Essays, III, 1

“La natura è tutta un'arte a te sconosciuta.”

citato in Focus, n. 70, pag. 130

“Il caffè, che rende il politico saggio | e guarda a ogni cosa con gli occhi mezzi chiusi.”

da The Rape of the Lock, canto III, verso 117

Alexander Pope: Frasi in inglese

“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?”

Origine: 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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