 Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Page 29by Alexander Pope - 1752Full view - About this book
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 392 pages
...this, and to himfelf. And in his Epiftle to Dr. drbuthnot (dcfigning it for publick View) he fays, Of gentle Blood (Part fhed in Honour's Caufe, While yet in Britain, Honour had Applaufe) Each Parent fprang— " What Fortune, pray ?— Their own, And better got than Be/iia's from the Throne. Born to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! 386 If there be force in Virtue, or in Song. Of gentle...fortune, pray? — P. Their own, 390 And better got, than Be/lia's from the throne. Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Difcord in a noble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! 386 If there be force in Virtue, or in Song. Of gentle...fortune, pray? — P. Their own, 390 And better got, than Be/tia's from the throne. Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Difcord in a noble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 290 pages
...a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! 386 If there be force in Virtue, or in Song. Of gentle...fortune, pray? — P. Their own, 390 And better got, than Btjlia's from the throne. Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Difcord in a noble... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...thefe circumftances our poet alludes in his epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot, in which he mentions his parents. Of gentle blood (part fhed in honour's caufe, While yet in Britain, honour had applaufe) v Each parent fprang,— — .What fortune pray ?— -— [their own, And better got than Beflia's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...to call our neighbour fool : That harmlefs Mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and fpare his family, James 'Moore! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable...or in Song. Of gentle blood (part fhed in Honour's caufc, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufc) Each parent fprung — A. What fortune, pray ? —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...finifhed, TO THE SATIRES. 45 That harmlefs mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, andfpare his family, James Moore! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable...or in Song. Of gentle blood (part fhed in Honour's cauie, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) Each parent fprung~A. What fortune, pray? — P. Their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 392 pages
...to call our neighbour fool : Thatharmlefs mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! If there be force in virtue, or in fong. Of gentle blood (part ihed in Honour's caufe, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) Each... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779
...to call our neighbour fool : That harmlefs Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable...caufe, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) Each VARIATION. Ver. 368. in the MS. Once, and but once, his heedlefs youth was bit, And lik'd that dangerous... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...early left the more poetical provinces of his art, to become a moral, didactic, and. fatiric poet. 27. Of gentle blood * (part fhed in honour's caufe, While...in Britain honour had applaufe) Each parent fprung ; what fortune pray. their own, Aiul better got than Beftia's from the throne. * When Mr. Pope pnbliftied... | |
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