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...18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic lines (reprinted from the Selected Works of Alexander Pope, a new volume edited by Louis Kronenberger: Modern...
...night before his death, Gandhi had recited a homely Gujarati couplet known in Porbandar (where he was born in 1869). It went...
...fellow athlete trudged homeward, Vag had visions of sneaking down to the courts before breakfast some morning and getting in a fast game. The church bell couplet announced that five-thirty had arrived, just as they reached the corner at Eliot House. "Race you back," muttered Vag, disgustedly...
...organization derives its name from Pope's couplet which begins, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." In Italy, Pieria was considered the home of the muses; sodality, a word now happily out of use, means a religious organization of sorts...
...Even then his attitude toward his craft was that of an artisan. His favorite technique was to plot the meter, write down the rhyming words at the end of each line, last of all fill in the lines behind them. In one of his early poems "there was a couplet I liked" : Love's exultant roundelay Issues in a wail of pain...