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Alexander Pope Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed
  • For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

    'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

Alexander Pope

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