 While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all. Tis true, on words is still our whole debate, Disputes of me or te, of aut or at, To sound or sink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Page 291by Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...'Tis true on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 120 To found or fink in cano, O or A? Or give up Cicero to C or K. NOTES. ind Simonides, who invented Jmgle letters. But Ariftarchus, who had found out a double one,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...Roman and Greek Grammarians, &c.~\ Imitated from Propertiu-; fpeaking of the ^Lneid. To found or fink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 248 pages
...true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 220 To found or fink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 246 pages
...on Words is ftill our whole debate, Dilputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 2M To found or fink in cant, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny may deny,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 368 pages
...Joaarum be<kr* premia frmtium, or, Te daBartm better* By this the IMITATI OKI. To found or fink in cant/, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affedt to fpeak as Terence fpoke. And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 pages
...Tis true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Friend affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : IMITATIONS. Ver. 207.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...of Homer. He calls it ibmething more than Letter, from the enormous figure it would To fonn J or fmk in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke i For me, what Virgil, Pliny may deny,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...Homer. He calls it fomething more than Letter, from the enormous figure it would make To fo1.nl or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...'Tis true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at.; . To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. • IBID, p, 206. THE COURTIER. IN flow'd at once a gay embroider'd race, And, titt'ring, pufh'd the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 pages
...^Eneid, " Cedite, Rrniani fcriptorss, cedite Graii ! " Nefdo quid majus nafckur Iliada." To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence -fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
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