Alexander Pope Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  Alexander Pope

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.121

• Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
  And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Grace, Zeal

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

• From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Bravery, Grace

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 152.

• Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Grace, Masters

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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,”, p.71

• Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Jewels, Grace

  An Essay on Criticism l. 297 (1711)

• Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Argument, Instruction

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.192

• The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Men, Grace

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “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”, p.318

• Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

  Alexander Pope

  Grace, Soldier, Triumph

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Of little use, the man you may suppose,
  Who says in verse what others say in prose;
  Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,
  And (though no soldier) useful to the state,
  What will a child learn sooner than a song?
  What better teach a foreigner the tongue?
  What's long or short, each accent where to place
  And speak in public with some sort of grace?

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Children, Men

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.156

• Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Mean, Grace

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 103

• Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
  To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Race, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Gay, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.59

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