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Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their...

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Alexander Pope: A brain of...

Alexander Pope: A brain of...

A brain of feathers and a heart of lead.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk ii. 44
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Alexander Pope: All crowd, who...

Alexander Pope: All crowd, who...

All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii....

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Alexander Pope: An obstinate person...

Alexander Pope: An obstinate person...

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Source: In The...

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Alexander Pope: Did some more...

Alexander Pope: Did some more...

Did some more sober critic come abroad?
If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.


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Alexander Pope: Fine by defect...

Alexander Pope: Fine by defect...

Fine by defect and delicately weak.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle II. 43
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Alexander Pope: It is with...

Alexander Pope: It is with...

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in...

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Alexander Pope: Ye gods! annihilate...

Alexander Pope: Ye gods! annihilate...

Ye gods! annihilate but space and time.
And make two lovers happy.


Source: The...

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Alexander Pope: Words are like...

Alexander Pope: Words are like...

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: From the great...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: From the great...

From the great deep to the great deep he goes.

Source: Idylls of the King, 'The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A daughter of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A daughter of...

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.


Source: A Dream...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A land of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A land of...

A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,
Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All night have...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: All night have...

All night have the roses heard
The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stirred
To...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A happy bridesmaid...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A happy bridesmaid...

A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.

Source: The Bridesmaid
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: At Flores in...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: At Flores in...

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Source: The Revenge, 1
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bury the Great...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bury the Great...

Bury the Great Duke
With an empire's lamentation.


Source: Ode on the Death of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Are God and...

Are God and Nature then at strife
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So...

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Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

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Ogden Nash: I have a...

Ogden Nash: I have a...

I have a bone to pick with Fate
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or...

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