Explore 215 quotes from Age of Enlightenment

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 275-276.

Burns, Robert. "To the Same. April 21st, 1785." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, st. 15.

Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV Of Public Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 11.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 2.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, l. 335.

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 11.

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 125-126.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Bentham, Jeremy. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, edited by Michael Quinn. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 2001, app. 2.