Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! Dimentica… - Alexander Pope

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Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale!
Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata.
Infinita letizia della mente candida!
Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.

Alexander Pope

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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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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

An honest man's the noblest work of God

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata. Infinita letizia della mente candida! Accettata ogni pr… - Alexander Pope

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