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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)
 
3595
    Heaven first taught letters for some wretch’s aid,
Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 51.
3596
    Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 57.
3597
    And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 66.
3598
    Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 74.
3599
    And love the offender, yet detest the offence. 1
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 192.
3600
    How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 207.
3601
    One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. 2
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 273.
3602
    See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll,
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul.
          Eloisa to Abelard. Line 323.
3603
    He best can paint them who shall feel them most. 3
          Eloisa to Abelard. Last line.
3604
    Not chaos-like together crush’d and bruis’d,
But as the world, harmoniously confus’d,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.
          Windsor Forest. Line 13.
3605
    A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
          Windsor Forest. Line 61.
3606
    From old Belerium to the northern main.
          Windsor Forest. Line 316.
3607
    Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call;
She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.
          The Temple of Fame. Line 513.
3608
    Unblemish’d let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
          The Temple of Fame. Last line.
 
Note 1.
See Dryden, Quotation 61. [back]
Note 2.
Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1. [back]
Note 3.
See Addison, Quotation 22. [back]