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Alexander Pope
498 quotes
“Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And truths divine came mended from that tongue.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And love the offender, yet detest the offence.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll, Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou great First Cause, least understood.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And deal damnation round the land.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Vital spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The glorious fault of angels and of gods.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourn'd!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who dared to love their country, and be poor.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The distant Trojans never injur'd me.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,-- The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Plough the watery deep.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, And one prodigious ruin swallow all.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“First in the fight and every graceful deed.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The first in banquets, but the last in fight.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With all its beauteous honours on its head.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He held his seat,--a friend to human race.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source