Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Mots clés fools rhyming-verse
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Errare è umano, perdonare divino.
Alexander PopeMots clés human-nature
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Mots clés poetry satire depression enlightenment
Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,
Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,
And solid pudding against empty praise.
Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,
Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,
Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,
Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:
How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,
How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry.
Mots clés politics satire corruption enlightenment authorship augustan
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded
Alexander PopeHappy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Mots clés contentment home dream land not-my-life
One science only will one genius fit/ So vast is art, so narrow human wit
Alexander PopeHeav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state;
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer Being here below?
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?
Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n,
That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n;
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall.
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
Mots clés philosophy atheism materialism theism
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