Alexander Pope ( 10 of 261 )
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Health consists with Temperance alone.
Health consists with Temperance alone.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.
He's armed without that's innocent within.
He's armed without that's innocent within.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd,
Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
