“ For, mark th' advantage; just so many score Will gain a wife with half as many more, Procure her beauty, make that beauty chaste, And then such friends--as cannot fail to last. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth, Venus shall give him form, and Antis birth. ”
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734). copy citation
| Author | Alexander Pope |
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| Source | An Essay on Man |
| Topic | wealth beauty |
| Date | 1734 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2428/2428-h/2428-h.htm |
Context
“from pole to pole, Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll, For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold, Prevent the greedy, and out-bid the bold: Advance thy golden mountain to the skies; On the broad base of fifty thousand rise, Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair) Add fifty more, and bring it to a square. For, mark th' advantage; just so many score Will gain a wife with half as many more, Procure her beauty, make that beauty chaste, And then such friends--as cannot fail to last. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth, Venus shall give him form, and Antis birth. (Believe me, many a German Prince is worse, Who proud of pedigree, is poor of purse.) His wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds; Asked for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds; Or if three ladies like a luckless play, Takes the whole house upon the poet's day.”
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