 | Alexander Pope - 1738 - 184 pages
...Weapon f left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! To all but Heav'n directed hands deny'd, The mufe may give thee, but the Gods...muft guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honeft 2eal ; To row2e the Watchmen of the Publick Weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad... | |
 | John Brown - Satire - 1745 - 44 pages
...Weapon^ left for Truth 's Defence, Sole Dread of Folly ^ Vice% and Infolence / To a!/, but Heav n-dire&ed Hands^ denyd^ The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft guide. LONDON; Printed for R, PODS LEY at Tully's Head in Pali-Mall, M.DCC.XLV. Price One Shilling. J I „... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! To all but Heay'n-dirscted hands deny'd, The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft guide : NOTES. Fr«m Terence: " Honjo fum : human! nihil a me alfenum " puto." P. VER. 208. Yes, lamprouJ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! To all but Heav'n-direcled hands deny'd, The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft guide : NOTES. From Terence : " Homo fum : humani nihil a me alienum «< puto." P. YER. 208. Yes, I am proud... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...content with being barely juft . himlelf, oppofes tht Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honeft zeal ; To roufe the Watchmen of the public Weal, To Virtue's...goad the Prelate flumb'ring in his Stall. Ye tinfel Infects ! whom a Court maintains, 220 That counts your Beauties only by your Stains, NOTES. " courfe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! To all but Heav'n-direfted hands deny'd, The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods...zeal ; 216 To roufe the Watchmen of the public Weal, VEs. 108. fes, I am prtvd) etc.] In this ironical exultation the Poet infmuates a fubjeft of the deepeft... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 360 pages
...tutapon, left for truth's defenct, Sale dread of folly, "Jtce, and infoltnce ! To all, but heavn-direfled hands, deny'd, The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft guide. TE gave the word, the cruel arrow fped, And POPE lies number'd with the mighty dead j 3 Ex,ultExulting... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! To all but Heav'n-diretled hands deny'd, The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods...guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honeft zeal ; 2'6 To roufe the Watchmen of the public Weal, VER. 208. Tes, I am proud; ac.'] In this ironical exultation... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...left for Truth's defence, " Sole dread of Folly, Vice, and Infolence ! " To all but Heav'n-dire&ed hands deny'd, " The Mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft ".guide." Our author then proceeds to fhew, that the moft polimed flattery of a poet cannot fanftify n bad caufe,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice and Infolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands deny'd, The mufe may give thee, but the Gods muft guide; Rcv'rent I touch thee ! but with honcft zeal; To roufe the Watchmen of the public Weal, To Virtue's... | |
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I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall. 
