 The balanc'd World, and open all the Main ; Your Country, chief, in Arms abroad 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?  The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 213by English poets - 1790Full view - About this book
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 478 pages
...AUGUSTUS. [GEORGE II.] WHILE you, great Patron of Mankind! sustain The balanc'd World, and open al! the Main ; Your Country, chief in Arms, abroad 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED. To Augustus. While 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 shal! the muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal? Edward and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...land, Abhor a perpetuity should stand ; Estates have wings, and hang in fortune's power. POPE. Y-jur 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,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...his own royal liege, King George II. Pope : 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 ? So Pope... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED. To Augustus. While 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 - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...manly regard to his own character. TO AUGUSTUS 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 defrand the public weal ? Edward and... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 pages
...great patron of mankind ! sustain The balanced world, and open all the main ; * 1 Book IV., Ode I. Your country, chief, in arms abroad 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 ? . Though... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...regard to his own character. TO AUGUSTUS WHILE you, great Patron of Mankind ! sustain The balanced race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around...Like a star of heaven In the broad daylight Thon a ; How shnll the Muse, from such a monarch, steal An hour, and not defraud the public weal ? Edward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...with a manly Regard to his own Character." To Augustus WHILE 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 5 An hour, and not defraud the Public weal? Edward and... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - English poetry - 1914 - 82 pages
...second and third of the following lines : " 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 ?" Pope then... | |
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