“The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke
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Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
“Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.”
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 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. ...
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.”
Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings
“Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.”
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. With notes by dr. Warburton
Source: The poetical works: with his last corrections, additions and improvements : with the life of the author ; embellished with superb engravings
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
“Wit and judgment often are at strife.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
Source: Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
Source: The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author
“Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.”
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“The zeal of fools offends at any time.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends”
Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
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
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
“What will a child learn sooner than a song?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.”
Source: The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books I-XII
“Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.”
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
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.”
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
“Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?”
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
“Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.”
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.]
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
“All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.”
Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton
Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
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