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Alexander Pope
Geburtstag: 21. Mai 1688
Todesdatum: 30. Mai 1744
Alexander Pope war ein englischer Dichter, Übersetzer und Schriftsteller des Klassizismus in der Frühzeit der Aufklärung.
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Zitate Alexander Pope
„Es ist gefährlich, nur ein wenig zu lernen. Tu' einen tiefen Zug - oder koste nicht vom Born des Wissens!“
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism. Erschienen 1711. Teil II, Zeilen 15 und 16
„Der Teufel ist jetzt weiser als vordem, er macht uns reich, nicht arm, uns zu versuchen.“
— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays
Moral Essays, , Epistle III, To Lord Bathurst (1732), line 351
Original englisch: “But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
Quelle: Adressat war der britische Politiker Allen Bathurst (1st Earl Bathurst)]
„Mit jedem Wort stirbt ein guter Ruf.“
— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock. Canto III
Original engl.: "At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
„Natur, Naturgesetze im Dunkeln sah man nicht; // Gott sprach: Es werde Newton! Und es ward Licht.“
Grabspruch für Isaac Newton (deutsch von Benutzer:Vsop.de). Siehe auch Übersetzung von B.M. Goldberg (1833) S. 288 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=9CE6AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA288
Original englisch: "Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night: //God said, Let Newton be! and all was Light." - Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster-Abbey. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Nine Volumes, Complete, Volume the Second. London 1797. p. 403 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=8EIfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403
„Ein wenig Wissenschaft, ein wenig Gelehrsamkeit", ruft uns Pope zu, "ist eine gefährliche Sache. Schöpft tief, oder kostet den Pierischen Quell gar nicht. Ein seichter Trunk berauscht das Gehirn; aber volle Züge machen wieder nüchtern.“
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
bei Friedrich Gellert: " „Wie weit sich der Nutzen der Regeln in der Beredsamkeit und Poesie erstrecke. Eine Rede bey dem Beschlusse der öffentl. rhetorischen Vorlesungen gehalten." Sammlung vermischter Schriften. Zweyter Theil. Leipzig 1764. S. 301 f. digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd18/content/pageview/9982735
Original engl.: "A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; // Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: // There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, // And drinking largely sobers us again." - s:en:An Essay on Criticism (1711)
„Partei ist der Wahnsinn der Vielen zum Vorteil von Wenigen.“
Vermischte Gedanken
„Zornig sein heißt, den Fehler anderer an sich selbst rächen.“
Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände
„Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.“
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation, I meet that argument — I rush in — I take that bull by the horns. I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us. Here, or at Washington, I would not trouble myself with the oyster laws of Virginia, or the cranberry laws of Indiana. The doctrine of self-government is right, — absolutely and eternally right, — but it has no just application as here attempted. Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man. If he is not a man, in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self-government do just what he pleases with him.
But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism
„To err is human, to forgive divine.“
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
„Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.“
— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Canto V, line 33.
Variante: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Quelle: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
