For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.] — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — 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