Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
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“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Now lapdogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)