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
Statement of 1739, as quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence, p. 286.
Variant reported in Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men (1887) by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451: "True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
Attributed
In his letter to Atterbury Bishop of Rochester. Sept. 23. 1720.
Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).
“This casket India's glowing gems unlocks
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.”
Canto I, line 134.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
Canto III, line 21.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell,
For sober, studious days!”
"A Farewell to London" (1715), st. 1.
Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.
"Sappho to Phaon", line 52 (1712).
“Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
Closing line.
The Temple of Fame (1711)
“Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.”
Canto I, line 15.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Quelle: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 449-458.
Letter to Edward Blount (27 August 1714); a similar expression in "Thoughts on Various Subjects" in Swift's Miscellanies (1727): Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
“A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.”
Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica (1687); Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule IV.
Misattributed
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
Canto II, line 7.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
As quoted in Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence [published from the original papers; with notes, and a life of the author, by Samuel Weller Singer]; "Spence's Anecdotes", Section IV. pp. 134–136.
Attributed
Quelle: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)
“On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.”
Quelle: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 37.
“For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”
Imitation of Martial, reported in Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence (1737), Vol. V, p. 232; The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 117. Compare: "Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui" (Translated: "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice"), Martial, X, 237.; "Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race", Abraham Cowley, Discourse XI, Of Myself, stanza xi.
