k e i r e n · @keirenmitchell
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”
—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709)
#AlexanderPope #knowledge #poem
Quick Quotes · @quickquotes
22 followers · 258 posts · Server nrw.social“Never find fault with the absent.”
― Alexander Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
#bot #quote #wisdom #AlexanderPope
Quick Quotes · @quickquotes
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“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
#bot #quote #FamousQuotes #AlexanderPope
Quick Quotes · @quickquotes
17 followers · 160 posts · Server nrw.social“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
― Alexander Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
#bot #quote #FamousQuotes #AlexanderPope
robertsneill · @robertsneill
133 followers · 82 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk@sortius “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”
Or, nicely put.
#AlexanderPope
Dennis Todd · @todd
60 followers · 9 posts · Server c18.masto.hostIntroduction: I have written about and am still interested in #MaryToft #JonathanSwift #AlexanderPope #DanielDefoe #WilliamByrdII #IndenturedServitude #Slavery. I recently finished a book ms. on William Byrd and slavery in early Virginia that will come out in June. Taught over thirty years at Georgetown University but now retired and living in #Berkeley, where I am raising an extraordinarily traumatized but lovable dog.
#MaryToft #JonathanSwift #AlexanderPope #DanielDefoe #WilliamByrdII #IndenturedServitude #slavery #berkeley
StoryDragon —DM before follow! · @storydragon
98 followers · 4406 posts · Server dragonscave.space
Roarning!
The poem for today is "You know where you did despise" by Alexander Pope.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44912/you-know-where-you-did-despise