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  • See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

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    Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.223

  • Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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    Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

  • Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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    Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

  • A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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    'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241
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Alexander Pope

  • Born: May 21, 1688
  • Died: May 30, 1744
  • Occupation: Poet
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