“Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.”
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
“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton
“Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...
“The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes
“Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author
“Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six 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 : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton
“What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.”
“Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“On wings of wind came flying all abroad.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”
“But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.”
Source: The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c
“No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore
“Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
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
“Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.”
“Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.”
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.]
“Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.”
Source: An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester
“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.”
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
“And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.”
“Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.”
Source: The Major Works
“Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.”
“Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”
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
“To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!”
Source: The Works of the English Poets
“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings
“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
Source: The Major Works
“Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.”
Source: Essay on Man
“In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
“When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.”
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
“E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life
“Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!”
“Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.”
Source: The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem : in Five Canto's
“Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six 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 : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton
