The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady’ (1717) l. 13
On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady’ (1717) l. 37
Oh happy state! when souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law:
All then is full, possessing and possessed,
No craving void left aching in the breast.
‘Eloisa to Abelard’ (1717) l. 91
Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
’Tis sure the hardest science to forget!
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th’ offender, yet detest th’ offence?
‘Eloisa to Abelard’ (1717) l. 189.
How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
‘Eloisa to Abelard’ (1717) l. 207
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:
Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.
‘Epigram: “You beat your pate”‘ (1732)
I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?
‘Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness’ (1738)
Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule
That every poet is a fool:
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
‘Epigram from the French’ (1732)
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.
‘Epistles to Several Persons’ ‘To Lord Cobham’ (1734) l. 11
Like following life thro’ creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.
‘Epistles to Several Persons’ ‘To Lord Cobham’ (1734) l. 39
’Tis from high life high characters are drawn;
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
‘Epistles to Several Persons’ ‘To Lord Cobham’ (1734) l. 87
’Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
‘Epistles to Several Persons’ ‘To Lord Cobham’ (1734) l. 101