Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
General
Mist
Shall
Flood
Born
Ministers
Withstood
Long
Corruption
Deluge
Like
Length
Blot
Lows
Watchful
Spread
Creeping
Sun
Avarice

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
Image
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Alexander Pope
Image
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Alexander Pope
Image
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
Image
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Alexander Pope
Image
A perfect woman's but a softer man.
Alexander Pope
Image
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
Alexander Pope
Image
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Alexander Pope
Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Alexander Pope
Image
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope
Image
That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
Alexander Pope
Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Alexander Pope
Image
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
Alexander Pope
Image
If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Alexander Pope
Image
Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
Alexander Pope
Image
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
Alexander Pope
Image
No craving void left aching in the soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope