"They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge."

Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 147.

"None think the great unhappy but the great."

Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 238.

"Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair."

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 83.

"The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone."

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 165.

"Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind."

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 207.

"Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed."

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282.

"And waste their music on the savage race."

Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 228.

"For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem."

Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 190.

"Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life."

Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 208.

"One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame."

Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 55.

"How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun."

Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 97.

"The man that makes a character makes foes."

To Mr. Pope. Epistle i. Line 28.

"Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt."

To Mr. Pope. Epistle i. Line 277.

"Accept a miracle instead of wit,-- See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ."

Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield.

"Time elaborately thrown away."

The Last Day. Book i.

"There buds the promise of celestial worth."

The Last Day. Book iii.

"In records that defy the tooth of time."

The Statesman's Creed.

"Great let me call him, for he conquered me."

The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."

The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2.

"The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear."

The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2.

"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

Universal Passion.

"Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last."

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

"Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old."

Can Love be controlled by Advice?

"[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate."

Siris. Par. 217.

"The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length."

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.

"First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't; If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice."

Zara. Epilogue.

"'T is the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well."

Verses written on a window in Scotland.

"Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven."

On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 41.

"Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more welcome shade."

On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 45.

"There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die."

On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 81.

"The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid."

To a Lady with a Present of Flowers.

"I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away."

Colin and Lucy.

"Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust,-- Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye."

Boulter's Monument.

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."

Boulter's Monument.

"Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1.

"Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 9.

"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 13.

"Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?"

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 17.

"'T is but a part we see, and not a whole."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 60.

"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 77.

"Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 83.

"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 87.

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 95.

"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."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 99.

"But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 111.

"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 123.

"Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 139.

"Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 193.

"Die of a rose in aromatic pain."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 200.

"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 217.