Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
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Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
“What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.”
“Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life
“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
“Time conquers all, and we must time obey.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author
“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”
Source: Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.”
“Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
Source: An Essay on Man
“Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
“Curse on all laws but those which love has made.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin
“Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.”
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.”
“O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]
“Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.”
Source: Moral essays
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials