For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire ii, Book ii, Line 159
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire ii, Book ii, Line 159
Related:
- Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire i, Book... - Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire i, Book... - Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet
To run amuck,
and tilt at all I meet. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book... - Who says in verse what others say in prose.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book... - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and... - Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book... - Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and... - Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book...
