Alexander Pope1688–1744The quotations of
Alexander Pope
English poet
1688–1744
27 quotes, most often on Friendship, Clever Jabs and Love. Part of the Poets collection.
- Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Line 207.
- Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift (14 December 1725)
- Imitations of Horace (1733–1738), Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, line 136.
- An Essay on Man (1733), Epistle II, Line 101In context
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac NewtonLove seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.“The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer” (c. 1704, published 1713), line 369- Moral Essays (1731–1735), Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709)For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.An Essay on Man (1734)In context- Pastorals (1709), Autumn
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)- Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- “Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer” (1721)
