 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; ven appoints this favour'd race to reign, And blood has drench'd the Sc fbce of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...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, in capitals ? Or... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...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, in capitals ? Or smoking... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...after it is said to have happened, it will be no breach of charity to supWhile Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of...there be ? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he? NOTES. pose that the whole of it was founded on some misapprehension in either Mr. Pope or the Earl... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...wonld not grieve if such a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he '. At last it is, Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, who had distinguished himself as a steady adherent... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English poetry - 1822 - 190 pages
...last ! In vain thy son his hundred triumphs bears, Disgrace and vengeance hold their victim fast. " Who but must laugh, if such a man there be, Who would not weep, if Marmion were he?"68 CXXVIII. cxxx. Now dnmk with anger, lost to self-respect, We trace the hireling... | |
 | 1823 - 610 pages
...supporters of Missions and Bible Societies, for undervaluing and disparaging the Bible. Who would not laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? We are not blind to the errors and inconsistencies which obtain in the religious world ; of which world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 pages
...if such a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he ? At last it is, Who but must langh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, who had distinguished himself as a steady adherent... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...refused." Why should he be jealous and splenetic only when Pope was concerned ? Bowles. Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that...sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — NOTES. Ver. 209. Like Cato, give] In the second volume of the Biographia Britannica is a vindication... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...refused." Why should he be jealous and splenetic only when Pope was concerned ? Bowles. Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that...sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — NOTES. Ver. 209. Like Cato, give] In the second volume of the Biographia Britannica is a vindication... | |
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