ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’?
A
Alexander Pope
B
Shelley
C
Keats
D
Dryden
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise An Essay on Criticism to the US Institutes of Medicine’s report on patient safety: To Err is Human.

Detailed explanation-2: -"To err is human, to forgive divine” a quote from Alexander Pope’s poem An Essay on Criticism. Errare humanum est, a Latin proverb.

Detailed explanation-3: -idiom saying. something that you say that means that it is natural for people to make mistakes and it is important to forgive people when they do. Making mistakes. balls.

Detailed explanation-4: -Where does To err is human, to forgive divine come from? This is a quote from a poem, An Essay On Criticism, by Alexander Pope.

Detailed explanation-5: -: it is normal for people to make mistakes.

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