Alexander Pope Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

• The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Men, Glasses

  Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.297

• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

• 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Joints

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.101

• O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
  And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Tongue

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

• Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Men, Vision

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.363

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

• The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Sky

  Alexander Pope (2011). “The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings”, p.106, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Laughter, Eye

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

• All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Eye, Winning

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

• For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.89, Oxford University Press

• Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].”, p.92

• Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
  And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Hands, Pleasure

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79

• All seems infected that th' infected spy,
  As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Spy

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 558

• Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies
  From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Ears, Taste

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.466, Delphi Classics

• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Eye

• For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

  Alexander Pope

  Reading, Eye, Stuff

  Alexander Pope (1728). “The Dunciad”, p.9

• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Ocean, Eye

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

• Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Eye, Angel

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

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