Alexander Pope Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Dream, Sky

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

• You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Alexander Pope, Homer, Samuel Johnson (1830). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.177

• Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Errors, Seems

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.337

• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Marriage, Dream

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284

• Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Add, Invention

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.81

• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

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