Quotes
Quotes - Pope
The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay.
And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew.
Note 1.See Milton, Quotation 4.
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Du Bartas: Days and Weeks, third day.
Note 3.Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.--Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2.
Note 5.See Sir John Davies, Quotation 1.
Note 7.There is no great and no small.--Ralph Waldo Emerson: Epigraph to History.
Note 9.La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).--Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--Plato: Phædrus.
Note 11.See Dryden, Quotation 23.
Note 13.See Cowley, Quotation 4.
Note 15.See Cowley, Quotation 18.
Note 17.See Bolingbroke, Quotation 3.
Note 19.'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.--William Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5.
Note 21.See Prior, Quotation 10.
Note 23.See Brown, Quotation 3.
Note 25.Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer some times nods).--Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359.
Note 27.See Suckling, Quotation 10.
Note 29.See Shakespeare, King Richard III, Quotation 5.
Note 31.See Burton, Quotation 66.
Note 33.See Denham, Quotation 4.
Note 37.See Spenser, Quotation 1.
Note 39.See Ben Jonson, Quotation 4.
Note 41.The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137.
