Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find, Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less! Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Dunciad and Moral Essays

Though the Dunciad was first publiAlexander Poped anonymously in Dublin its authorship was not in doubt. He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson.