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
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
"An Essay on Man"
“They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.”
"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 103.
Odes, Book iv, Ode 9, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 31.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
As quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence [arranged, with notes, by the late Edmund Malone], pp. 28–29 & 53–54.
Attributed
“Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.”
Canto III, line 157.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
In a 1715 letter (LXXVII), as found in Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends. 1737.
George Dennison Prentice http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4820, in Prenticeana (1860)
Misattributed
“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.”
"Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt" (1720).
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
Quelle: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 61.
“From old Belerium to the northern main.”
Quelle: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 316.
“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
Canto II, line 27. Compare: "No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 2, Membrane 1, Subsection 2.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Never find fault with the absent.”
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
Misattributed
“If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.”
Canto II, line 17.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Quelle: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 468-472.
Canto II, line 105.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Canto III, line 117.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
Heraclitus, Fragments, 54; http://philoctetes.free.fr/heraclitefraneng.htm and http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/HERAC.HTM; also translated in such variants as:
The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one
The hidden harmony is better than the open one.
Misattributed
“Let such, such only tread this sacred floor,
Who dare to love their country and be poor.”
Inscription on the entrance to his grotto in Twickenham, published in "Verses on a Grotto by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars and Minerals", line 14, (written 1740, published 1741); also quoted as "Who dared to love their country, and be poor."
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
Credited as Epigram: An Empty House (1727), or On a Dull Writer; alternately attributed to Jonathan Swift in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303.
Misattributed
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
Quelle: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 13.
Stanza 1.
The Universal Prayer (1738)
Quelle: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 21. Pope also uses the reference, "Like Cato, give his little Senate laws", in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734), Prologue to Imitations of Horace.
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie.
François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm.
Misattributed
“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), lines 298-299. Compare: "I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wif of Bathes Prologue", line 6154; "The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
Stanza 10; this extends upon the theme evident in the lines of Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene (1596), Book V, Canto ii, Stanza 42: "Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?"
The Universal Prayer (1738)
