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The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Book by Alexander Pope · 23 quotes · Life, Ifs, Bears

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“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.”