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• A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

  Alexander Pope

  Saint, Lawns

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 87

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• Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Add, Invention

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.81

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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 thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Art, Dust

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.178

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• Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Losing, Lost

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.239

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• She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

  Alexander Pope

  Husband, Answers, Accepting

  Alexander Pope (1836). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.117

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• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Style, Strange

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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