Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Bare The Mean Heart That Lurks Behind A Star.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire i, Book ii, Line 110
Related:
Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
