So vast is art, so narrow human wit - Alexander Pope

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit

Alexander Pope

An Essay On Criticism · June 17, 2004 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Alternative Names: Pope the Poet • Alexander I Pope • Alexander, I Pope

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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

Let us (since life can little more supply, than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air.