 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
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...available for trade, used ironically. Complaints of Spanish attacks upon English merchantmen were frequent. Your Country, chief, in Arms abroad 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 Publick Weal ? Edward... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...encouraging the arts and immoral in his life and court: While You, great Patron of Mankind, sustain The balanc'd World, and open all the Main; Your Country,...abroad defend At home with morals. Arts, and Laws amend ... And so on. Another burst of sardonic eulogy, to which again Horace gives the inspiration, concludes... | |
 | Philip Ayres - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 308 pages
...The self-parodying panegyric sounds accordingly absurd: 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?136 The satire... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...peccem, Si longo fermone merer tua tempera, Caefar -j- ! While you, great patron of mankind, fuftain The balanc'd world, and open all the main ; Your country,...defend, At home with morals, arts, and laws amend; How fliall the Mufe from fuch a monarch ftcal An hour, and not defraud the public weal J ? ALL thofe... | |
 | English literature - 1928 - 748 pages
...following brief extracts from the Epistle 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 ? . . . Wonder... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 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 $ An hour, and not defraud the Public weal? Edward and... | |
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