“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
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Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“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
“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
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
Source: The poems of Alexander Pope
“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
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 poems of Alexander Pope
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
Source: The poems of Alexander Pope
“But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke
“Die of a rose in aromatic pain.”
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
“The lot of man - to suffer and to die.”
Source: The odyssey
“Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...