“ fools rush in where angels fear to tread ”
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711). copy citation
Author | Alexander Pope |
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Source | An Essay on Criticism |
Topic | foolishness caution fearlessness |
Date | 1711 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7409/7409-h/7409-h.htm |
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“Nay, showed his faults—but when would poets mend? No place so sacred from such fops is barred, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard: [623] Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead, For fools rush in where angels fear to tread Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes; But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks, And, never shocked, and never turned aside. Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering tide,”
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