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
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — 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
