“Virtue alone is happiness below.”
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
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Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.”
“From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.”
Source: Essay on Man
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: Poetical works
“Who dare to love their country, and be poor.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield
“Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.”
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
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
“From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.”
“A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.”
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
“And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.”
“Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”
Source: An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
“Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.”
“There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.”
“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
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
“Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.”
Source: The Dunciad
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
“Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.”
Source: The poems of Alexander Pope
“A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes
Source: The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“And make each day a critic on the last.”
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
“Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.”
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
“Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.”
Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem
“Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials