“Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake”
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“Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.”
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 Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings
“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
“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
Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
“Nor in the critic let the man be lost.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“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
“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
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, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.”
Source: An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires: Easyread Large Edition
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
“Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.”
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 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. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles
Source: Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism
Source: The prose works of Alexander Pope: The major works, 1725-1744
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
“But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.”
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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
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
“Monuments, like men, submit to fate.”
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
Source: The 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
“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: 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 Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
Source: Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“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
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
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 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
“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”