Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which upheld the status of the established Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, or holding public office on pain of perpetual imprisonment. Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698/99. He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Such schools, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet.
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Alexander Pope (1763 – 22 March 1835) was an Irish actor and painter.
He was born in Cork, Ireland. He was educated to follow his father's profession of miniature painting. He continued to paint miniatures and exhibit them at the Royal Academy as late as 1821; but at an early date he took the stage, first appearing in London as Oroonoko in 1785 at Covent Garden. He remained at this theatre almost continuously for nearly twenty years, then at the Haymarket until his retirement, playing leading parts, chiefly tragic. He was well known as Othello and Henry VIII.
He played for the first time in Edinburgh on 15 June 1786, as Othello.
He was married three times. His first wife, Elizabeth (1744–1797), a favourite English actress of great versatility, was billed before her marriage as Miss Younge. His second wife, Maria Ann Campion (1775–1803), also a popular actress, was a member of an Irish family. His third wife, born Clara Maria Leigh (1768–1838), was the widow of the artist Francis Wheatley, and herself a skilful painter of figures and of flowers, under the name of Mrs Pope.
The Pope (Latin: papa from Greek: πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father") is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. The primacy of the Roman bishop is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter, to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of "binding and loosing", naming him as the "rock" upon which the church would be built. The current pope is Francis, who was elected on 13 March 2013, succeeding Benedict XVI.
The office of the Pope is the papacy. His ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the Diocese of Rome, is often called "the Holy See" or "the Apostolic See", the latter name being based upon the belief that the Bishop of Rome is the successor of Peter the Apostle. The Pope is considered one of the world's most powerful people because of his diplomatic and cultural influence. He is also head of state of Vatican City, a sovereign city-state entirely enclaved within the Italian capital city of Rome.
Pope is a religious title [see Pope (word)] traditionally accorded to the head of the Catholic Church, as well as to some other religious figures. Pope can also be used as a surname or a place name.
Pope (1806 – 29 August 1831), also known as Waxy Pope and The Sligo Waxy, was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1809 Epsom Derby and was a leading sire in Ireland. Pope was the first Epsom Derby winner produced by his sire Waxy, who would go on to sire three more Derby winners and three winners of the Epsom Oaks. Pope was a half-brother to the prolific broodmare Penelope, the dam of the influential stallions Whisker and Whalebone who were also sired by Waxy. Pope died on 29 August 1831 at Clearwell.
Pope was bred by the Duke of Grafton and was foaled at his Euston Hall stud in 1806. Pope was sired by the 1790 Epsom Derby winner Waxy, who was purchased by the Duke and became an influential and important sire that went on to sire three additional Derby winners and three winners of the Epsom Oaks. Pope's dam, Prunella, was bred by the Duke of Grafton and was sired by Highflyer out the mare Promise, sired by Snap. Prunella produced 12 foals for the Duke of Grafton between 1796 and her death in December 1811. Pope was her seventh foal and the first of four foals sired by Waxy. Full-siblings to Pope include the mares Pledge (the dam of the 1819 Derby winner Tiresias), Pope Joan (the dam of the 1827 2,000 Guineas winner Turcoman and 1828 Oaks winner Turquoise) and Prudence (the dam of Reginald and Rowena). Half-siblings to Pope include the mares Pelisse (winner of the Oaks), Penelope (the dam of 1810 and 1815 Derby winners Whalebone and Whisker who were also sired by Waxy), Parasol (the dam of Pastille and Pindarrie) and the good racer Pioneer.
Actors: Wade Alleyne (actor), Dario Bellamy-Audain (actor), Zandré Bowen (actor), Jerome Branch (actor), Josiah Brathwaite (actor), Ramon Broomes (actor), Kirk Brown (actor), Adrian Browne (actor), Dyestra Browne (actor), Andrew Franklin (actor), Damien Gibson (actor), Jermaine Gittens (actor), Tracy Greenidge (actor), Arlon Griffith (actor), Simon Alleyne (actor),
Plot: Payday, a Barbadian comedy-drama/buddy film showcasing a raw slice of Barbadian community life. Romie, an aspiring mechanic and ladies man, with his brutally honest best friend Pack, invest their entire salaries in a down-payment on a garage. Their goal: to establish a successful mechanic's shop to get away from their boring jobs as security guards, their loving yet eccentric and demanding families, and poor standard of living in their village - Pickletons. Their simple task of making the down-payment to the garage owner at the village lime that night is hilariously complicated by Romie's love-life, and Pack's love for cannabis. The complications and laughs multiply as the best friends go to extremes to avoid violent drug men, a charity collector, crazy ex-girlfriends and other wacky villagers.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jeffrey Combs (actor), Matthew Gray Gubler (actor), Darin Heames (actor), Jeff Hennessy (actor), Hans Howes (actor), Marcus Langston (actor), Ty LaPlaunt (actor), Christopher Mastandrea (actor), Jack Plotnick (actor), Mel Rodriguez (actor), Ray Santiago (actor), Cade Sutton (actor), John Waters (actor), Muse Watson (actor), Ronnie Gene Blevins (actor),
Plot: Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can't find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jock father, and beer-bellied classmates. But when a vengeful ghost terrorizes the small town, the city-boy recruits Becca, a badass local bartender, to solve the mystery of the spirit threatening everyone's lives.
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Brad Barnett (actor), Nicole Boyd (actor), Oto Brezina (actor), Curt Darwin (actor), Brandon Dean (actor), Devon Graye (actor), Kurtis James (actor), Myles Jones (actor), Johan Luis (actor), Tony Saenz (actor), Johnny Williams (actor), Jada Facer (actress), Amy Jorgensen (actress), Rachel Kiser (actress), Trinity Marquez (actress),
Plot: A short film inspired by the work of legendary comic book artist, Brian Bolland. The story of a seemingly ordinary young citizen who finds his life to be painstakingly predictable and... boring. Due to stress and sleep deprivation, he battles the onset of mental instability and explores his primeval desires for anarchy, violence and murder. Locked in his room, he videotapes his plan to kill.
Genres: Action, Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Joachim Paul Assböck (actor), Christian Banzhaf (actor), Gode Benedix (actor), Carsten Berger (actor), Oliver Bigalke (actor), Julian Bleach (actor), Detlef Bothe (actor), Jasper Britton (actor), Michael Brown (actor), Victor Calero (actor), Jamie Campbell Bower (actor), James Clyde (actor), Paolo De Vita (actor), Ned Dennehy (actor), Sebastian Armesto (actor),
Plot: Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A series of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare.
Keywords: 16th-century, abandonment, actor, actress, ale, ambush, amnesty, anonymity, applause, arrestActors: George Anton (actor), Robert Baker (actor), Richard Barela (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), James Blackburn (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Clayton Laurence Cheek (actor), Harp Corrigan (actor), Adon Cravens (actor), Jordan Del Spina (actor), Bill Dufault (actor), Hugh Elliot (actor), Scott Flick (actor), Darren Gibson (actor), Christopher Andrews (actor),
Plot: In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he's captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon's flight and Carver's hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls?
Keywords: 1860s, 19th-century, ambush, american-civil-war, american-indian, arm-wound, attempted-rape, baby, bible-quote, bloodActors: Aleksandr Bashirov (actor), Denis Homchenko (actor), Roberto Romero (director), Roberto Romero (editor),
Plot: 300 years after the foundation of St. Petersburg, the spirit of Peter the Great is still wandering through the streets and backyards of the town. Directly affecting the new decadent lifestyle of its inhabitants, some prostrated by poverty, and some stratified in a novij Russkij enthusiastic artificial atmosphere, Peter himself becomes a "dodgy one". Gathering up the broken pieces of a dead mirror, Peter, encounters desperate reflections of the former glorious town he had founded.
Genres: ,Actors: Terry Big Charles (actor), Joe Michael Burke (actor), Yoav Dekelbaum (actor), Chanan Elias (actor), Ishai Golan (actor), Yohanan Herson (actor), Jay Koller (actor), Dolph Lundgren (actor), Juliano Mer-Khamis (actor), Nati Ravitz (actor), Ze'ev Revach (actor), Howard Rypp (actor), Sherri Alexander (actress), Rebecca Cross (actress), Jack Adalist (actor),
Plot: An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter Scale splits California into an island with a perpetual dustcloud hanging over it. The survivors of the terrible ordeal have started to come together in the shape of Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) an air force captain, and other fractions of the military, including Sarah McBride and Lucky Simcoe, and have situated themselves in a warfare junkyard, holding weaponry from forgotten conflicts. They are searching for food, fuel and fellow survivors, and a possible path into the next world, while also dodging a violent plague that causes the skin to boil.
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Plot: Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
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Plot: Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has taken its toll and if Sir Douglas does not take off for several months he stands a good chance of dying soon. Back in his chambers, a solicitor named Pope was waiting to see him. Pope's firm handled most of the important legal cases. Pope was there to ask Sir Douglas to take up the defense of his client, Leslie Locke. Sir Douglas's mind went back some twenty years when he was struggling for recognition, and he had been in love with a very beautiful girl ---Laura Hyde. Sir Douglas had never spoken of his love, however, because he was very poor, and wanted to be quite certain, before he married, that he would be able to give his wife every luxury. Another admirer of Laura at the time was a well-to-do, volatile and impetuous young artist who, before the plodding Rolls knew what was happening, had swept Laura off her feet and married her. The artist's name was Leslie Locke. Sir Douglas had never gotten over his love for Laura and had never taken any interest in any other woman since, and he and Laura had remained the closest of friends. Pope's client, charged with murder of a model he had been seeing, and going on trial for his life, was the man who had married Rolls' only-love. Sir Douglas, knowing it may kill him, takes the case, and fights with the last of his strength to save the life of the husband of the woman he has always loved. And, possibly, have to implicate Laura in the proceedings.
Keywords: 1930s, affair, alibi, artist, barrister, chambers, cheating-husband, circumstantial-evidence, clerk, client(U don't understand)
(I ain't scared of U muthafuckas - kick it!)
(Stir it like coffee)
The Pope
(Stir it like [mo'fuckin'] coffee)
The Pope, uh
(What the hell?)
This is the Pope
Oh, your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock 2 the bee - that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame
Put me on a slow movin' parliamentary hackin' bandwagon
U could put me little ass in the grave
Every time U want it, I'll be live - bring a date
I mean computer - when it's over, press save
So U can be the President (Kick it)
I'd rather be the Pope (I'd rather be, so help me)
Yeah, U can be the side effect (Baby)
I'd rather be the dope
(I ain't scared of U muthafuckas - kick it!)
Call your girl named Sally and U figure U were chill (Chill)
Then U find out I'm the reason Sally's on the pill (Pill)
What am I supposed 2 do when the President can't get nothin' passed?
Find an alley, find an alley - undress Sally right in front of your ass!
(Well, she helped me once again)
I say U can be the President (Kick it)
I'd rather be the Pope (I'd rather be, so help me)
Yeah, U can be the side effect (Baby)
I'd rather be the dope (Fuck that)
The Pope
(Oh no motherfucker, not 2day)
U can be the President? (Rather be the Pope)
So help me
Who's the funky drummer with the crooked little sticks? (Sticks)
He might have better luck if he was drummin' with his dick (Dick?)
If U don't play the piccolo, why U wanna lick?
Now check the drum solo and tell me not 2 kick it
(Seek and destroy)
(It'll fuck U up)
I love the taste of unpredictable licks
A loop is a loop is a loop, uh!
A loop is a loop is a loop, uh! (Fuck that)
A loop is a loop is a loop is a loop is a loop is a loop is a loop
Your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope
But the whole damn nation got the same
Honey only flock 2 the bee - that's the Pope
Not the President with government lame
Put me on a slow movin' parliamentary hackin' bandwagon
U will put me little ass in the grave
Every time U want it, I'll be live - bring a date
I mean computer - when it's over, press save
So U can be the President (Kick it)
I'd rather be the Pope (I rather be, so help me)
U can be the side effect (Baby)
I'd rather be the dope (U, U, U)
The Pope
U can be the President (Fuck that)
Rather be the Pope
Baby, so help me please
I love U
Press save
I love U
Peace
Asahi News | 04 Nov 2021