 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps,...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 112by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; tic fire, this ' vivida vis animi,' in a very few....are imperfect or neglected, this can overpower criti ? •VI" > would not weep, if Atticus were he 7 What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1830 - 736 pages
...between knowledge, taste, and wit— and ignorance, infatuation, and perhaps insanity. " Who would not laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?" By this foolish business, and the dissolution of 1796, Mr. Halhed's public career was closed, and he... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 426 pages
...applause ; While Wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — 15 Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, ifAxTicus were h&J • • 15. For these reasons, the senate and people of A'thens, -(with "due veneration... | |
 | English essays - 1830 - 722 pages
...between knowledge, taste, and wit — and ignorance, infatuation, and perhaps insanity. " Who would not laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were be?" By this foolish business, aod the dissolution of 1796, Mr. HalhetTs public career was closed,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Quotations, English - 1992 - 1172 pages
...he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause: 8 ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I dr AWP; InPK; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What?... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...will trust." The famous Atticus portrait ends on an even more emphatic assertion of wide agreement: "Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? / Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?" Every satiric victim can be seen to unify the poet and all the rest of society: everyone else will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his litde senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause;...there be? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he! What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Books and reading - 2001 - 280 pages
...Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templers ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of...there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 36 Atticus is being satirized for a combination of power mania and cowardly indirectness as well as... | |
 | Sylvère Lotringer, Sande Cohen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 334 pages
...to the "pseudo-socio anatchist" man for all seasons, Matshall McLuhan and his project: Who would not laugh, if such a man there be Who would not weep, if McLuhan were Notes 1. Jubn Fckere atgues McLuban's central role as the culmination of New Ctitscism... | |
 | George Justice - Authors and publishers - 2002 - 302 pages
...of Literature. The portrait ends with a couplet built upon the antithesis of nostalgia and satire: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he! (11. 213-14) As the ensuing lines of the poem declare, and as the opening of the poem enacted, the... | |
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