Date: 1709

"What Passions in a Parent's Breast debate!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1712

"And all the Furies wake within their Breast."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1712

"Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll, / And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Yet should the Fears that wary Mind suggests / Spread their cold Poison thro' our Soldier's Breasts, / My Javelin can revenge so base a Part, / And free the Soul that quivers in thy Heart."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Hector's Mind fluctuates every way, he is calling a Council in his own Breast, and consulting what Method to pursue."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"[W]hat a Crowd of terrible Ideas in this one Simile!"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1715

"Tis the natural Discharge of a vast Imagination, heated in its Progress, and giving itself vent in this Crowd of Images"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, / Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, / These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, / Make, and maintain, the balance of the mind."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1733-4

"Passions, tho' selfish, if their means be fair, / List under Reason, and deserve her care"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1711

"There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife."

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)