 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
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 | 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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