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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
“And not a vanity is given in vain.”
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.]
“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”
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
“The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books
“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
“Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.”
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: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
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
“And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.”
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
“Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.”
Source: Works of Mister Alexander Pope
“And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.”
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
“Nor in the critic let the man be lost.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”
“And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.”
Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.”
Source: The Major Works
“To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!”
Source: Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead
“The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
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. ...
“If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?”
Source: Poetical works
“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
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.]
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?”
“Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
Source: Poetical works
“And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?”
Source: Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison
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
“In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.”
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
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton
“Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
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
“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.”
Source: The Select Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author
“Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.”
“Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!”
Source: Poetical works
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