"Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree."

Windsor Forest. Line 13.

"A mighty hunter, and his prey was man."

Windsor Forest. Line 61.

"From old Belerium to the northern main."

Windsor Forest. Line 316.

"Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all."

The Temple of Fame. Line 513.

"Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!"

The Temple of Fame. Last line.

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

On the Collar of a Dog.

"There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,--live in peace,--adieu."

Verbatim from Boileau.

"Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord."

The Universal Prayer. Stanza 1.

"Thou great First Cause, least understood."

The Universal Prayer. Stanza 2.

"And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will."

The Universal Prayer. Stanza 3.

"And deal damnation round the land."

The Universal Prayer. Stanza 7.

"Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me."

The Universal Prayer. Stanza 10.

"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound."

Ode on Solitude.

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."

Ode on Solitude.

"Vital spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame!"

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

"Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!"

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

"Tell me, my soul, can this be death?"

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

"Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?"

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

"What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?"

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 1.

"Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?"

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 9.

"The glorious fault of angels and of gods."

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 14.

"So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe."

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 45.

"By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourn'd!"

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 51.

"And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show."

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 57.

"How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!"

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 71.

"Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue."

Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford.

"Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died."

Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt.

"The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died."

Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet.

"Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child."

Epitaph on Gay.

"A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?"

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.

"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298.

"Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise."

The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 369.

"You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home."

Epigram.

"For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy."

Imitation of Martial.

"Who dared to love their country, and be poor."

On his Grotto at Twickenham.

"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!"

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 1.

"The distant Trojans never injur'd me."

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 200.

"Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd."

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 332.

"Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,-- The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god."

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684.

"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies."

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 771.

"Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ii. Line 970.

"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 199.

"She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 208.

"Ajax the great . . . Himself a host."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 293.

"Plough the watery deep."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 357.

"The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, And one prodigious ruin swallow all."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 196.

"First in the fight and every graceful deed."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 295.

"The first in banquets, but the last in fight."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 401.