Alexander Pope Quotes about Literature
"Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)
'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289
Attributed to Alexander Pope by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter to Jonathan Swift, March 29, 1730.
William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15
An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Alexander Pope (1764). “An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton”, p.111
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.266
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.245
