“The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.”
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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
“A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.”
Source: An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton
“Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Age and want sit smiling at the gate.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
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 works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“The villain's censure is extorted praise.”
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
“One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”
Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory
“Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“The enormous faith of many made for one.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: 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 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
“A field of glory is a field for all.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton
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
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
“Monuments, like men, submit to fate.”
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes
Source: Poetical works
“Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.”
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
“Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
Source: The Poetical works
“Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.”
Source: The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
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
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
Source: The Major 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
“So upright Quakers please both man and God.”
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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume
“Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
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