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Rhyme Quotes by Alexander Pope

4 Rhyme quotes by Alexander Pope

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The art of rhyme shaped much of Alexander Pope’s legacy, and his thoughts on the craft still echo in modern poetry. Known for his sharp wit and formal precision, Pope explains how rhyme can tighten argument, delight the ear, and turn a simple line into a memorable maxim that endures across centuries.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,…

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,…

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…

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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…

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Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:

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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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