Quote

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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
Giving
Gives
Contracts
Great
Thousand
Shown
Tincture
Differences
Passions
Dyes
Seen
Manners
Invert
Seeing
Fancy
Optics
Passion
Ten
Enlarges
Come
Objects
Multiplies
Take
Difference
Beam

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Alexander Pope
Image
Education forms the common mind.
Alexander Pope
Image
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
Alexander Pope
Image
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Alexander Pope
Image
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
Alexander Pope
Image
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Alexander Pope
Image
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
Image
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Alexander Pope
Image
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope
Image
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
Image
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Alexander Pope
Image
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
Image
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope
Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope
Image
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
Alexander Pope
Image
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
Alexander Pope
Image
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Alexander Pope
Image
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
Image
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope