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• There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

  Alexander Pope

  Acting, Monsters, Pits

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304

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• Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Advice, Niggard, Worst

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Ambition, Son

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.134

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• Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Ambition, Hands

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.21

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• What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

  Alexander Pope

  Blood, Coward, Ancestry

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

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• Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

  Alexander Pope

  Bird, Blooming, Joyous

  Alexander Pope, “Spring - The First Pastoral ; Or Damon”

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• Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

  Alexander Pope

  Hurt, Lawyer, Scribes

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.111

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• Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Choices, Dies

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.460

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• No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Saint, Silver

  Alexander Pope, John Butt (1963). “Poems”, p.256, Yale University Press

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• At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sun, Corruption

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.26

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• What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

  Alexander Pope

  Cutting, Gold, Want

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• How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

  Alexander Pope

  Glowing, Guilt, Delight

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.110

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• While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

  Alexander Pope

  Knavery, Noble, Credit

  Alexander Pope (1796). “The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c”, p.230

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• Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Fool, Sincere

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

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• Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Butterfly, Wheels, Satire

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

  Alexander Pope

  Sculpture, Grew, Marble

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

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• Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Rays, Use, Splendor

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.403

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• Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Silence, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.353

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

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sky, Spirit

  Alexander Pope (1715). “The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem : in Five Canto's”, p.3

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• The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Lord, Swine, Hog

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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• Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

  Alexander Pope

  Cheerful, Rays, Morrow

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.133

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• The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

  Alexander Pope

  Wind, Sea, World

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.139, Delphi Classics

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• The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Twilight, Autumn

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.62

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• And not a vanity is given in vain.

  Alexander Pope

  Vanity, Vain, Given

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.268

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• Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Dignity, Virtue

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.339

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