Alexander Pope Quotes about Children
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
'Epitaph: On Mr Gay in Westminster Abbey' (1733)
Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.309
Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “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”, p.119
Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.156
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403
Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 275