The blogger of suburbia (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Alexander Pope once said "A little learning can be a dangerous thing;" it implores us to indulge deeper in education. It can also be a harmless thing when ignorance does not change the world. James Kirkup, who has obviously not tasted recently the Pierian spring, was 'analysing' the appointment of Baroness Ashton as the new High Representative for Foreign Affairs - essentially...
Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Welcome to MasonicPaedia.Org : "“In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But, all mankind’s concern is Charity”"
Dreamtime - Commentary Inspired By Bob Dylan's Theme... (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... debate, and a definite point for the “Yes” side. The line is a paraphrase taken from Alexander Pope’s 1711 poem, “An Essay on Criticism,” an unlikely reference for Theme Time producer/writer Eddie Gorodetsky to be making in relation to Muddy Waters, no matter how literate the ex-radio jock and comedy writer may be. On the other hand, if we had the opportunity...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Abelard Abelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story has often been retold, notably by Alexander Pope. "From lips like those what precept failed to move? Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love."...
PEPTalk (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... you do... Don't just SIT THERE! I leave you with this excerpt from An Essay on Man/Epistle III by Alexander Pope Chapter 3:2 Whether with reason, or with instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best; To bliss alike by that direction tend, And find the means proportioned to their end. Say, where full instinct is the unerring guide, What pope or council can...
Planet of the Blind (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The proper study of mankind is man. By this Alexander Pope meant something more than the human frame and let's be jumpy and irritable cuz we want better living conditions for the lame and the halt. You are the lame...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"Your nature is to do evil; mine is to love the truth and publish it despite you." This entry is from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, under the entry on Fate. On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers like Alexander Pope and Gottfried Leibniz, the New York Public...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... a production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, just as John Cusack's puppetmaster is staging a version of Alexander Pope's poem Eloisa To Abelard. Pretend the nebulous is tactile In Cold Souls, the soul physically exists and can be removed, just as specific memories in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind can be identified and deleted. In Stranger Than Fiction, your future can even be rewritten...
Center for Teaching & Learning (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Our blog’s title prompts a refreshing drink from its source in Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism, 1711, here with original italics and capitalization, though, alas, no “long s” (the one that looked somewhat like ‘f’ ["tafte"]). One of items about Pope’s couplets that has impressed me from back in the day (Pope being one...
radio deleuze (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
____________________ Homer moved next day. None were sure that the wriitng ofthe Iliad was identical to the Odyssey . Especially the one that rhymed by Mister Alexander Pope. Being short, he tied the hexameter twogether in "heroic couplets' killing the tune. Byron came to kick that off through and through ______________Don Juan was the result. And a powering thrust it was. Now she's rhymed...
Monica Fairview (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... is as alien to us as the way we think is to hers. To grasp some of these ideas you have to read Alexander Pope, who lays them out very nicely. But then Pope doesn't have a memorable character anywhere. Jane Austen, on the other hand, was able to create warm blooded human beings whom we can have a crush on in 2009! I don't know what's up with me today. I seem to be going on...
Notes From The UndergroundBastard (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... * Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take - and sometimes Tea. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Pope was speaking of Queen Anne and Kensington Palace; note that in Pope's time, "tea" was pronounced "tay" and thus rhymed with "obey.") * He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives...
