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
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,… — 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
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. — 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
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private… — 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
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — 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