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Pope lived in his parents' house in Mawson Row, Chiswick, between 1716 and 1719; the red-brick building is now the Mawson Arms, commemorating him with a blue plaque. [12] The money made from his translation of Homer allowed Pope to move in 1719 to a villa at Twickenham, where he created his now-famous grotto and gardens. The serendipitous ...
The Temple of Fame: A Vision is an eighteenth-century poem by Alexander Pope, directly inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century poem The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling). First published in 1715, [1] the poem comprises 524 lines which, like Chaucer's original version, take the form of a dream vision.
The Poems of Alexander Pope (a one-volume edition of the Twickenham text ed.). Yale University Press. ISBN 0300003404. OCLC 855720858. John Wesley, "Thoughts on the Character and Writings of Mr. Prior" and "Journals" in Wesley's Works as given in "The Master Christian Library" v. 8 (by Ages Software). Maynard Mack, Alexander Pope: A Life.
According to María Elena Bergoglio, the pope's only living sibling, the family did not emigrate for economic reasons. [25] His other siblings were Oscar Adrián, Marta Regina, and Alberto Horacio. [26] [27] His niece, Cristina Bergoglio, is a painter based in Madrid, Spain. [28] [29]
Pope Francis, at 87 increasingly weak and wobbly, takes a trip down memory lane and speaks of his hopes for the Roman Catholic Church's future in a new book reflecting on his life and its ...
A pope who demonstrates that he is a man with his feet on the ground. [57] The washing of the feet angered many Catholic traditionalists. [58] Pope Francis had performed the Lenten washing of the feet, traditionally at Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, at a juvenile detention home and included two girls and two Muslims. He stated that he ...
Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...
Pope Benedict XVI – in a General Audience. A particularly solemn form of imparting the apostolic blessing is as an Urbi et Orbi blessing. The pope gives his blessing in many ways. He may use, with or without the introductory liturgical greeting, Dominus vobiscum, the formula of pontifical blessing that any other bishop may use.