Alexander Pope Quotes about Heart

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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

Alexander Pope

Heart, Wine, Age

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

Heart, Gay, Joy

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.59

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

Business, Heart, Men

1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Alexander Pope

Heart, Chloe, Want

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.240

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope

Sarcastic, Heart, Brain

'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 2, l. 44

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

Heart, Rakes, Intrigue

1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Alexander Pope

Teaching, Heart, Design

Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.222

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

Life, Heart, Sheep

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

Life, Heart, Thinking

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

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

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

Alexander Pope

Lying, Writing, Heart

Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.108

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Alexander Pope

Heart, Sunshine, Giving

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.137

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

Alexander Pope

Smart, Heart, Men

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.80