Quotes
Quotes - Pope
Note 43.See Sidney, Quotation 6.
Note 45.See Cibber, Quotation 21.
Note 47.May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Richard Savage: Character of Foster.
Note 49.See Addison, Quotation 21.
Note 51.See Dryden, Quotation 61.
Note 53.See Addison, Quotation 22.
Note 55.See Spenser, Quotation 22.
Note 59.See Chaucer, Quotation 30. Herbert, Quotation 30.
Note 61.Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est
Vivere bis vita posse priore frui
(The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice).--Martial, x. 237.
See Cowley, Quotation 21.
Note 63.The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii. line 366.
Note 65.As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow.--Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18.
Note 67.He serves his party best who serves the country best.--Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.
Note 69.Divinely fair.--Alfred Tennyson: A Dream of Fair Women, xxii.
Note 71.Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.--Sir Walter Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.--Lord Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 179.
Note 73.See Dryden, Quotation 92.
Note 75.Human face divine.--John Milton: Paradise Lost, book iii. line 44.
Note 77.See Otway, Quotation 4.
Note 81.Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x. page 184).
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.
Is not absence death to those who love?
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
