Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: Here files of...

Alexander Pope: Here files of...

Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles,...

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Alexander Pope: Here thou, great...

Alexander Pope: Here thou, great...

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes...

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Alexander Pope: He himself one...

Alexander Pope: He himself one...

He himself one vile antithesis.

Source: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 325
--...

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Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Alexander Pope: Is not absence...

Is not absence death to those who love?

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Alexander Pope: Damn with faint...

Alexander Pope: Damn with faint...

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to...

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Alexander Pope: Hills peep o'er...

Alexander Pope: Hills peep o'er...

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Source: An Essay on Criticism,...

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Alexander Pope: Is it, in...

Alexander Pope: Is it, in...

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Source: Elegy to the Memory of an...

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Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

Alexander Pope: He saw, he...

He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by...

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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: Die of a...

Alexander Pope: Die of a...

Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

Source: An Essay on Man, I. 200
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: I was not...

Alexander Pope: I was not...

I was not born for courts and great affairs,
but I pay my debts, believe and say my...

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Alexander Pope: Know then this...

Alexander Pope: Know then this...

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Alexander Pope: I am His...

Alexander Pope: I am His...

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?


Source: On...

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Alexander Pope: Let sinful bachelors...

Alexander Pope: Let sinful bachelors...

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore;
Full well they merit all they feel, and more:
Unaw'd by precepts, human...

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Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Alexander Pope: Do good by...

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Source: Epilogue to the Satires,...

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Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

Alexander Pope: If, presume not...

If, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle...

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Alexander Pope: Line after line...

Alexander Pope: Line after line...

Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe.


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Alexander Pope: Is there a...

Alexander Pope: Is there a...

Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoomed his father's soul...

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Alexander Pope: Let standard-authors, thus,...

Alexander Pope: Let standard-authors, thus,...

Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne,
Appear more glorious as more hacked and...

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Alexander Pope: Fame can never...

Alexander Pope: Fame can never...

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Source: letter to...

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