Alexander Pope Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Style, Strange

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Blow, Numbers

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 368

• The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Lord, Swine, Hog

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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