Alexander Pope (21 May 168830 May 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.

See also
An Essay on Criticism (1711)
The Iliad of Homer (1715 to 1720)
The Odyssey of Homer (1725)
The Dunciad (1728 to 1743)
Moral Essays (1731 to 1735)
An Essay on Man (1733 to 1734)
Imitations of Horace (1733 to 1738)

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Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told... Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none! How vast a memory has Love! Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died. He lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor. Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

Pastorals (1709)

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)

Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame...

Windsor Forest (1713)

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713)

The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

What dire offense from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things! Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)

Eloisa to Abelard

Oh name forever sad! forever dear! Still breathed in sighs, still ushered with a tear. Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love? How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd... He best can paint them, who shall feel them most.

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part?

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

Published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727)
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The Universal Prayer (1738)

Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind. That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

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The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one
The hidden harmony is better than the open one.

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When pope Alexander VI established the Line Of Demarcration, What was impacted?
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A. The Treaty of Tordesillas made a line of demarcatioon, that divided the new world between Spain and Portugal. Very little was impacted, except Brazil became Portugal's area, as other countries (besides Spain and Portugal) decided to ignore the treaty in North America.
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