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

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 “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Alexander Pope

Life, Affliction, Taught

Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

Life, Sight, Swim

Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.275

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

Alexander Pope

Life, Eye, Sky

Alexander Pope (2011). “The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings”, p.106, Penguin UK

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

Life, Kings, Ambition

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

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Alexander Pope

Life, States, Middle

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

Alexander Pope

Life, Peculiar, Earth

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 63

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

Alexander Pope

Life, Morning, Prayer

'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation' (of King George I, 1715) (1717)