 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...ftate: Alike my fcorn, if hefucceed or fail, Sporus at court, or Japhet in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhire ; 365 If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. NCXTES. VER.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...ftate: Alike myfcorn, if hefucceed or fail, Sporia at court, or Japhet in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhire ; 365 If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. NOTES. VER.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...Japhct in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhirel 365 if on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. VER. 3 54. Abaft, on all he hro'd, or hv'J lim, fpread,] Namely on the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...361 Alike my {corn, if he fucceed or fail, Sporus at court, or Japhet in a jail, A hireling icribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or...Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. NOTES. V£R. 356. The whifper, that to Greatnefs ftill too near,"] By the whifper is meant calumniating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...: Alike my fcorn, if he fucceed or fail, Sporus at court, or Japhet in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or...Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. M » Yet Yet foft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...: Alike my fcorn, if he fucceed or fail, Sporus at court, or Japhet in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhire ; 365 If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. M » Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...ftate: Alike my fcorn, if he fucceed or fail, Sforus at court, or Japbet in a jail, A hireling fcribler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhire ; 365 If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. Yet foft... | |
 | Eschenburg - Literature - 1788 - 472 pages
...fcribbler, or a hireling peer: Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the f hire ; If an a pillory, ornear a throne He gain his prince's, ear, or lofe his own, Yet foft by nature, moré a dupe than wît, Sappho can tell you ho •• this man was bit; This dreaded fat'rift D(nnu... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...'sa knave, to me, in every flats : Alike my fcorn, if he fucceed or fail, Sporus at court, or Japhet in a jail ; A hireling fcribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the poft corrupt, or of the fhire ; 365 If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lofe his own. M 2 Yet '... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...in a jail, A hireling fcribb'lcr, or a hireling peer. Knight ot the poft corrupt, or of the Ihire j If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's car, or lole his own. Yet foft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was... | |
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If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit; This dreaded... 
