Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope was rather partial to wearing a banyan with a matching head gear.
What is a banyan I hear you ask?
Well….
A banyan is a loose house-robe, usually in a fancy fabric like a damask or brocade. The style originated in India, so it was worn with a turban. It had an exotic flavor, so it was associated with men who were intellectual or artsy. There was a fashion for men to have their portraits painted while in their banyans, to show how cosmopolitan and intellectual they were.
The literary figure, Sherlock Holmes often wore a smoking jacket whilst relaxing at 221b Baker Street. 🙂
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Alexander Pope Quotes:
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
– Pope
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A FINE lady is like a cat; when young, the most gamesome and lively of all creatures—when old, the most melancholy.
– Alexander Pope`
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.
—Pope.
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Coffee, which makes the politicians wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
~Alexander Pope
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Damn with faint praise.
– Pope
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
– Alexander Pope
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
– Pope
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
~Alexander Pope
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;You’ve play’d, and lov’d, and ate, and drank your fill;Walk sober off, before a sprightlier ageComes titt’ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
—Pope.
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Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
—Pope.
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‘‘ Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.’’
– Alexander Pope
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
– Alexander Pope
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The villain’s censure is extorted praise.
— Pope
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To err is human to forgive divine
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
—Pope