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Alexander Pope Quotes about Hell

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.462

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

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 Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker.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

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149