 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 pages
...times, half by way of boast, half of confession, he says, ' But touch me, and no Minister so sore : Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into...Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.' Already, it seems, in childhood he had the same irresistible instinct,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pages
...touch me, and no minister so sore : Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse and bitches in a rhyme; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. 12 u Gibber's Letter to Mr. Pope. There was another cause for the poet's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...Erasmus Lewis his prose-man.] ' [Cardinal Floury, prime minister of France under Louis XV. ; born in Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into...Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. 80 Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage,3 Hard words or hanging, if... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1854 - 210 pages
...But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time, Slides into verse, or hitches in a rhyme ; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of a merry song." — Pope. I.IFE OF HORACE. Hoc genus : Hora quota est ? Threx est Gallina Syro par ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...everlasting rust ! Peace is my dear delight — not Fleury's more ; But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into...Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. so Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches iu a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. so Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1857 - 532 pages
...could not be magnanimous, — it was not in his spiteful nature to forgive. He says of himself, Who'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.* One of Pope's biographers f seems to insinuate, that he had been led on, by the lady's coquetry, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...everlasting rust ! Peace is my dear delight — not Fleury's more : But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into...life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page ;" From furious... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - Dunbar, Scotland - 1859 - 352 pages
...although, as far as personal courage went, Cope was completely acquitted on his trial, he was doomed to be Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of a merry song. On the 21st of September, the magistrates and council of Dunbar, having acquainted the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...everlasting rust ! Peace is my dear delight — not FLEURY'S more : But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into...and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life-long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard... | |
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. 
