Alexander Pope

"When simple Macer, now of high renown, First fought a Poet's Fortune in the Town, 'Twas all th' Ambition his high soul could feel, To wear red stoc"

"Begone, ye Critics, and restrain your spite, Codrus writes on, and will for ever write, The heaviest Muse the swiftest course has gone, As clocks r"

"Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send, Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend: Not with those Toys the female world admire,"

"There lived in Lombardy, as authors write,     In days of old, a wise and worthy knight;     Of gentle manners, as of generous race,     Bless'"

"Fr. 'Tis all a libel--Paxton[203] (sir) will say.     P. Not yet, my friend! to-morrow, faith, it may;     And for that very cause I print to-d"

"Close to the best known author Umbra sits,     The constant index to old Button's wits,     'Who's here?' cries Umbra: 'Only Johnson.'[86]--'Oh!"

"1 Though Artemisia talks, by fits,     Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;     Reads Malebranche, Boyle, and Locke:     Yet in some things me"

"Women ben full of Ragerie, Yet swinken not sans secresie. Thilke Moral shall ye understand, From Schoole-boy's Tale of fayre Ireland: Which to the"

"(WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)     DIALOGUE I.     Fr. Not twice a twelvemonth you appear in print,     And when it comes, the court see nothing"

"In these gay thoughts the Loves and Graces shine,     And all the writer lives in every line;     His easy art may happy nature seem,     Trifl"

"THE DESIGN.     Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon's expression) come home to men's b"

"Here, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind,     Thy country's friend, but more of human kind.     Oh, born to arms! oh, worth in youth app"

"Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know"

"The captain, some time after his return, being retired to Mr Sympson's in the country, Mrs Gulliver, apprehending from his late behaviour some est"

"1 Fluttering, spread thy purple pinions,     Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,     I a slave in thy dominions;     Nature must give way to art."

"What beckning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? Tis she!but why that bleeding bosom gord, Why dim"

"In amaze     Lost I gaze!     Can our eyes     Reach thy size!     May my lays     Swell with praise,     Worthy thee!     Worthy me!"

"She said, and for her lost Galanthis sighs; When the fair consort of her son replies: 'Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan, And kindly sigh for"

"Ye Lords and Commons, Men of Wit, And Pleasure about Town; Read this ere you translate one Bit Of Books of high Renown. Beware of Latin Authors a"

"To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near;     Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear:     Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship"

"Neque sermonibus vulgi dederis te, nec in prmiis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suiste oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus. Quid de te a"

"Goddess of woods, tremendous in the chase, To mountain wolves and all the savage race, Wide o'er the aerial vault extend thy sway, And o'er the inf"

"DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.     Prodigious this! the frail one of our play     From her own sex should mercy find to-day!     You might have he"

"Authors the world and their dull brains have traced To fix the ground where Paradise was placed; Mind not their learned whims and idle talk; Here,"

"Say, St John, who alone peruse     With candid eye the mimic Muse,     What schemes of politics, or laws,     In Gallic lands the patriot draws"

"IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.     'Tis true, my lord, I gave my word,     I would be with you, June the third;     Changed it to August,"

"When Learning, after the long Gothic night,     Fair, o'er the western world, renew'd its light,     With arts arising, Sophonisba rose;     Th"

"I know a thing thats most uncommon; (Envy, be silent and attend!) I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend. Not warpd by pas"

"I. To one fair lady out of Court, And two fair ladies in, Who think the Turk and Pope a sport, And wit and love no sin! Come, these soft lines, w"

"'Ah, friend! 'tis true--this truth you lovers know--     In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow,     In vain fair Thames reflects the doubl"

"POPE.     Since my old friend is grown so great,     As to be Minister of State,     I'm told, but 'tis not true, I hope,     That Craggs will"

"Fain would my Muse the flow'ry Treasures sing, And humble glories of the youthful Spring; Where opening Roses breathing sweets diffuse, And soft Ca"

"Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song, To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades, The dreams of Pindus,"

"Sir, I admit your general rule,     That every poet is a fool:     But you yourself may serve to show it,     That every fool is not a poet."

"Erected By Their Father The Lord Digby, In The Church Of Sherborne, In Dorsetshire, 1727.     Go! fair example of untainted youth,     Of modes"

"She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can"

"I Flutt'ring spread thy purple Pinions, Gentle Cupid, o'er my Heart; I a Slave in thy Dominions; Nature must give Way to Art. II Mild Arcadia"

"O Wretched B----,[90] jealous now of all,     What god, what mortal shall prevent thy fall?     Turn, turn thy eyes from wicked men in place,"

"Few words are best; I wish you well: Bethel, I'm told, will soon be here; Some morning walks along the Mall, And evening friends, will end the year. I"

"Of gentle Philips will I ever sing, With gentle Philips shall the valleys ring. My numbers too for ever will I vary, With gentle Budgell and with g"

"All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade! Scene of my youthful loves and happier hours! Where the kind Muses met me as I stray'd, And gently p"