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Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 17

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Sides, Moderation, States

Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.129

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

Summer, Shade, Murmuring

Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.7

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Science, Trying, Firsts

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “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”, p.340

Hope springs eternal.

Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

Light, Criticism, Shade

Alexander Pope (1789). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...”, p.198

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

Thinking, Sky, Dies

'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Believe, Noise, Abundance

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.9

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Future, Tyrants, Hell

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Wings, Hawks, Dove

Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Father, Grief, Joy

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.159

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Pants, Glory, Breaths

Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.274

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Art, Soul, Slides

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 65

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Book, Fate, Men

Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Art, Jewels, Grace

An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Son, Feet, Paper

1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127-30.

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

Stars, War, Fall

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.244

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

Peace, Farewell, Sleep

Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.118, Oxford University Press

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Dog, Thinking, Sky

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 111

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

Nature, Eye, Angel

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Peculiar, Care, Merit

Alexander Pope (1777). “A collection of essays, episodes and odes”, p.35

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Happiness, Style, Would Be

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 418

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

Nature, Atoms, Next

Alexander Pope (1828). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With Notes Illustrative of the Grammatical Construction, Designed as a Text-book for Parsing”, p.26

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

Lasts, Next, Fool

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 36

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

Wise, Kings, Character

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.232

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Life, Change, Art

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68

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