Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
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Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.”
Source: Poetical works
“New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.”
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
“To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
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
“When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke
“Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“Astrologers that future fates foreshow.”
Source: Poetical works
“You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq: to which is prefixed the life of the author
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
“Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators
“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”
“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.”
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 his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes
“To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.”
Source: The Major Works
“Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.”
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
“Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it”
“Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author
“Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
“Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“Die of a rose in aromatic pain.”
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