Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet,
And mark that point where sense and dulness meet. - Alexander Pope
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Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.
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Pope the Poet
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Alexander I Pope
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Alexander, I Pope
Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but lose with ease, Sure some to vex, but never all to please.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away!
