What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Weitere Zitate von Alexander Pope
Zum Autor"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul."
"Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er."
"Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place."
"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."
"Wise wretch! With pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."