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 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE. TO AUGUSTUS.* WHILE you, great patron of mankind ! snstain The balanced world, and open all the main ; Your country, chief,...defend ; At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend ; How shall the Muse from such a monarch steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal ? Edward and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...compliments with which the satire opens : " While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanced world, and open all the main ; Your country, chief,...defend, At home with morals, arts, and laws amend ; How shall the muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal 1 * * * To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...flatterers, and with a manly regard to his own character. HILE you, great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanc'd world, and open all the main ; Your country,...defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend ; How shall the muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal? Edward and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...flatterers, and with a manly regard to his own character. HILE you, great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanc'd world, and open all the main ; Your country,...defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend ; How shall the muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal? Edward and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...regard to his own character. TO AUGUSTUS.1 "WHILE you, great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanced world, and open all the main ; Your country, chief,...defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend ; How shall the Muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal ? Edward... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...the land, Abhor a perpetuity should stand ; Estates have wings, and hang in fortune's power. POPE. Your country, chief in arms, abroad defend ; At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend. POPE. What's property? you see it alter, Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share, Or, in a jointure,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Presidents - 1876 - 570 pages
...these lines to George the Second: " While you, great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanced wurl1l, and open all the main ; Your country, chief in arms,...defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws, amend." Fulsome enough, in all conscience. What he means by opening all the main I cannot exactly tell. Chief... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - United States - 1876 - 574 pages
...lines to George the Second: " While you, great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanced world, nnd open all the main ; Your country, chief in arms, abroad...defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws, amend." Fulsome enough, in all conscience. What he means by opening all the main I cannot exactly tell. Chief... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Presidents - 1876 - 568 pages
...George the Second: " While you, great patron of mankind! sustain The balanced wortil, and open atl the main ; Your country, chief in arms, abroad defend, At home, with morals, arts, and laws, amend." Fulsome enough, in all conscience. What he means by opening all the main I cannot exactly tell. Chief... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...the land, Abhor a perpetuity should stand ; Estates have wings, and hang in fortune's power. POPE. Your country, chief in arms, abroad defend ; At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend. POPE. What's property? you see it alter, Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share, Or, in a jointure,... | |
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