Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: Right well mine...

Alexander Pope: Right well mine...

Right well mine eyes arede the myster wight,
On parchment scraps y-fed and Wormius...

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Alexander Pope: Speed the soft...

Alexander Pope: Speed the soft...

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.


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Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels...

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Alexander Pope: So sweetly mawkish...

Alexander Pope: So sweetly mawkish...

So sweetly mawkish and so smoothly dull.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iii. 171
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Alexander Pope: Like Cato, give...

Alexander Pope: Like Cato, give...

Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.


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Alexander Pope: She, while her...

Alexander Pope: She, while her...

She, while her lover pants upon her breast,
Can mark the figures on an Indian chest.


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Alexander Pope: Stretched on the...

Alexander Pope: Stretched on the...

Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 342
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Alexander Pope: Rise, honest Muse!...

Alexander Pope: Rise, honest Muse!...

Rise, honest Muse! and sing the Man of Ross.

Source: Moral Essays, Epistle III....

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Alexander Pope: Statesman, yet friend...

Alexander Pope: Statesman, yet friend...

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere
In action faithful, and in honour clear,
Who broke no promise,...

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Alexander Pope: Loud thunder to...

Alexander Pope: Loud thunder to...

Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked, `God save King...

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Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.


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Alexander Pope: That true self-love...

Alexander Pope: That true self-love...

That true self-love and social are the same;
That virtue only makes our bliss below;
And all our knowledge is,...

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Alexander Pope: She moves a...

Alexander Pope: She moves a...

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

Source: Homer's Iliad, III. 1
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Alexander Pope: Sure of their...

Alexander Pope: Sure of their...

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Alexander Pope: Nor in the...

Alexander Pope: Nor in the...

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Source: An Essay on Criticism.
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Alexander Pope: Slave to no...

Alexander Pope: Slave to no...

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through nature up to nature's...

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Alexander Pope: The mob of...

Alexander Pope: The mob of...

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alexander Pope: Some praise at...

Alexander Pope: Some praise at...

Some praise at morning what they blame at night;
But always think the last opinion...

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Alexander Pope: The hidden harmony...

Alexander Pope: The hidden harmony...

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Source:
-- Alexander Pope, (May...

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Alexander Pope: Not to admire,...

Alexander Pope: Not to admire,...

Not to admire, is all the art I know
To make men happy, and to keep them so.


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