The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Belinda smil’d, and all the world was gay.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 2, l. 52
Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law,
Or some frail china jar receive a flaw,
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,
Forget her pray’rs, or miss a masquerade.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 2, l. 105
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 7
At ev’ry word a reputation dies.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 16
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 21
Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 46
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see thro’ all things with his half-shut eyes).
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 117
Not louder shrieks to pitying heav’n are cast,
When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 3, l. 157
Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 4, l. 123
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1714) canto 5, l. 33
Teach me to feel another’s woe;
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
‘The Universal Prayer’ (1738)
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again;
Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.