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Pope

Any writer's your addicted to? For me it's Pope, and I say this as a former meth addict.

What is the best Homer translation?

Art hoes are cringe. Well read avant teen girls are based but harder to come by and often mentally ill.

>>13517071
If you have money then you have the ability to take her away somewhere and fuck her brains out. Doesn't matter if it's a car, a boat or an apartment. You call her up, you go fuck and she calls it sexual experience.

Every women has one of those once in a while, but most of them are searching for the one and only or whatever they call him and end up in a stable relationship.

That's one part of it. The other part is the case when she wants to marry a rich guy to make her life easier. It's a condition, there's nothing wrong with it. You have conditions too. If your condition is that you wouldn't date a fat ugly bitch, why is it a special case when a women goes after the wallet?

>>13510116
I approve of your posts, butterfly. Keep on niceposting.

Ah, ah, yes! Thou givest me hope
That were I not mine own self
I would surely not have thee
But that I am myself
And eke thee thyself
Truely I am the better off.

>>13504513

>i've finished the top 100
>doesn't know the middle 1,000
I take it you've yet to read Pope's oeuvre

What are your thoughts on Alexander Pope?

You guys are idealizing the idea of law instead of seeing it as a flawed concept and moving on with your thoughts where you will eventually find an opinion about it that is not the result of mental diarrhea.

Apparently someone big on Twitter has been posting Pope poems and he's getting more hits and likes than ever

In the time it takes you to read this "trasure" you could have read The Rape of the Lock twelve times over and come out with a booty more bountiful than

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>>13281702
There's a theory that he was a crypto-Catholic, but I think the evidence is flimsy. OP should've gone with pic related.

Have a few lines of Pope. It's on me.
>Those RULES of old discover'd, not devis'd,
>Are Nature still, but Nature methodis'd;
>Nature, like liberty, is but restrain'd
>By the same laws which first herself ordain'd.

Dryden's translation is the closest you can get to a Pope translation

Please, please, PLEASE read The Rape of the Lock, Londonfrag :3

Good
>I am his highness's dog at Kew;
>Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Bad
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster

Every time I see a Pope collection in a stack/shelf thread I just think "based"
Are you the same?

*burp*
18th century lit thread?

and Pope!

Vital spark of heavenly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying,
O, the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life!

Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

Nay, 'tis a quill with which to write my theses.
>O that I were a white and wondrous swan
>I'd shoo the geese away with Get ye gone!