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
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from… — 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
“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — 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
“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
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at… — 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
“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the… — 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
