Alexander Pope słynne cytaty
„Ci, co najbardziej zasługują na pochwały, najlepiej znoszą krytykę.”
Źródło: „Przekrój”, tom 2, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 1976, s. 10.
„Choć rankiem chwalą to, co potępiają w nocy,
mówią, że ostatnie tylko zdanie w mocy.”
Źródło: Eleanor Herman, W łóżku z królem. 500 lat cudzołóstwa, władzy, rywalizacji i zemsty. Historia metres królewskich, tłum. Katarzyna Kołaczkowska, Wydawnictwo Jeden Świat, Warszawa 2006, ISBN 8389632268, s. 155.
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot?
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned. (ang.)
Alexander Pope cytaty
„Duma, nigdy niezawodząca przywara głupców.”
Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. (ang.)
Źródło: O krytyce, część II
„Ten, kto szuka czegoś bezbłędnego, wszędzie myśli o tym, czego nie było, nie ma i nie będzie.”
Źródło: „Przekrój”, wydania 1–13, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 2000, s. 28.
„Błądzić to rzecz ludzka, przebaczać – boska.”
Źródło: „Przekrój”, wydania 1–13, Krakowskie Wydawnictwo Prasowe, 2000, s. 28.
Alexander Pope: Cytaty po angielsku
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."
Attributed
In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.
Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
“This casket India's glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”
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.”
Canto III, line 21.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”
"A Farewell to London" (1715), st. 1.
Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.
"Sappho to Phaon", line 52 (1712).
“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
Closing line.
The Temple of Fame (1711)
“Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.”
Canto I, line 15.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Źródło: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 449-458.
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.”
Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687); Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule IV.
Misattributed
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
Canto II, line 7.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
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
Źródło: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)
“On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.”
Źródło: 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.”
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.
