This poem quotes John Denham's "Of Prudence" in saying "To live and die is all I have to do".
This poem quotes John Denham's "Of Prudence" in saying "To live and die is all I have to do". The speaker of this poem describes how people flatter him by saying he "cough[s] like Horace" or has "Ovid's nose", and jokes that when he dies, he'll be compared to Homer because he "died three thousand years ago". One stanza in this poem describes a figure "blessed with each talent and each art to please" but being "too fond to rule alone, / Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne". Another figure in this poem is called a "mere white curd of ass's milk". Joseph Addison and Lord Hervey are satirized in this poem as the characters Atticus and Sporus. Because "All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out", the speaker of this poem commands "Shut, shut the door, good John!" This poem is the source of the phrases "damn with faint praise" and "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" For 10 points, name this Alexander Pope poem addressed to his physician.
This poem quotes John Denham's "Of Prudence" in saying "To live and die is all I have to do".
"Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"