Alexander Pope

Quotes

1. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike,

   And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

2. 

   Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,

   When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.

3. 

   Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,

   And beauty draws us with a single hair.

4. 

   Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.

5. 

   If to her share some female errors fall,

   Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

6. 

   At every word a reputation dies.

7. 

   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.

8. 

   Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,

   And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

9. 

   Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

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