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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Alexander Pope
Grace, Argument, Instruction
Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Alexander Pope
Hands, Grace, Masters
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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,”, p.71

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Alexander Pope
Money, Mean, Grace
'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 103

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.

Alexander Pope
Art, Jewels, Grace
An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope
Life, Grace, Zeal
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Alexander Pope
Grace, Soldier, Triumph
Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

Alexander Pope
Prayer, Heart, Grace
Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.121

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Alexander Pope
Art, Bravery, Grace
'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 152.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Alexander Pope
Character, Men, Grace
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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”, p.318

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