Alexander Pope a-t-il vraiment dit « Hope springs eternal in the human breast » ?

Alexander Pope a-t-il vraiment dit « Hope springs eternal in the human breast » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Oui. Le texte figure dans des œuvres attribuées à Alexander Pope. Source et emplacement ci-dessous.

… trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves …
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires — Alexander Pope, ¶30 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #2428 · source

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