Alexander Pope
English poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Since Man from beast by Words is known,
Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone.
—Alexander Pope, English poet, The Dunciad, 1742
Posted on March 11, 2004 at 7:24 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colours spreads on every place;
The face of Nature we no more survey,
All glares alike, without distinction gay;
But true expression, like th'unchanging sun,
Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon;
It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
—Alexander Pope, English poet, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Posted on August 27, 1999 at 7:11 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
In words as fashions the same rule will hold,
Alike fantastic if too new or old;
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
—Alexander Pope, English poet, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Posted on February 18, 1999 at 4:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Why did I write? what sin to me unknown
Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
—Alexander Pope, English poet, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Posted on November 19, 2002 at 11:54 AM
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