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Some Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
- There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
- Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
- No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
- How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even…
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the…
- Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
- As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels…
- Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
- Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The…
- Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from…
- A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
- Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make…
- Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
- Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
- The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
- I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole…
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