To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely .” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
