Alexander Pope Quotes - Page 30

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• One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Self, Hours

  Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.30

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• The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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  Villain, Praise, Censure

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.302

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• Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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  Beauty, Men, Hair

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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  Party, Animal, Ignorant

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.227

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• The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

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  Bible, Jobs, Book

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• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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  Nature, Children, Law

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 275

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