Alexander Pope Berühmte Zitate
„Irren ist menschlich, Vergeben göttlich.“
Versuch über die Kritik
Quelle: Alexander Popen Verſuch Von den Eigenſchaften Eines Kunſtrichters Durch Hrn. Hofrath Drollinger uͤberſetzet. w:Johann Jakob Bodmer: Sammlung Critischer, Poetischer, und andrer geistvollen Schriften. Bd. 1. Zürich, 1741. S. 75 deutschestextarchiv.de https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/bodmer_sammlung01_1741/?p=91&hl=irren
„Der Teufel ist jetzt weiser als vordem, er macht uns reich, nicht arm, uns zu versuchen.“
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)]
Alexander Pope Zitate und Sprüche
„Mit jedem Wort stirbt ein guter Ruf.“
The Rape of the Lock. Canto III
Original engl.: "At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
„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
An Essay on Criticism. Erschienen 1711. Teil II, Zeilen 15 und 16
„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
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)
Alexander Pope: Zitate auf Englisch
“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”
Quelle: Eloisa to Abelard
Quelle: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 1.
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”
and all was light.
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.
“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”
Quelle: Eloisa to Abelard
“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”
Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709).
Quelle: Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published
“And die of nothing but a rage to live”
Variante: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Quelle: Moral Essays
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
Quelle: An Essay on Criticism
Quelle: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope
“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”
Canto I, line 1.
Quelle: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”
Quelle: An Essay on Man
Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.
Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 832: "Verbatim from Boileau", written c. 1740, published 1741.. Compare: "Tenez voilà", dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille, Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais; Messieurs, l'huître étoit bonne. Adieu. Vivez en paix", Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux, Epître II. (à M. l'Abbé des Roches).
“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”
Canto III, line 46.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 369.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”
Quelle: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 57.
“Each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend.”
"Epistle to Mr. Jervas" (1717), lines 21–22.
