Thee Quotes by Alexander Pope

11 Thee quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope’s eleven short reflections on thee present a focused slice of his poetic voice. The collection is compact, yet it captures the wit and precision that mark his approach to this theme.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make…

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All…

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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of…

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee…

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,…

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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the…

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[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?…

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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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