Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — 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
