 My head and heart thus flowing through my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory.  Works: In English Verse - Page 119by Horace - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...simple pride for flatt'ry makes demands, May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hand? POPE. 418 419 In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. POPE. My retreat the best companions grace, Chiels out of war, and statesmen out of place. POPE. Jarring... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1900 - 626 pages
...Verse-man or Prose-man, term me what you will, Papist or Protestant or both between, Like good Erasmus placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.8 For Horace's "hand ignobilis Argis,"7 who took pleasure in a theatre of his own imagination,... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 500 pages
...prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.« Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er sich gegen... | |
 | English philology - 1901 - 532 pages
...prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.< Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er sich gegen... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 1246 pages
...prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.c Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our Army!... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...autobiographical poems, he loved to represent this detachment from party as the effect of philosophy :— In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. 1 Yet at the time when he wrote these words he was an active supporter of the Parliamentary Opposition.... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 536 pages
...autobiographical poems, he loved to represent this detachment from party as the effect of philosophy : — In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.1 Yet at the time when he wrote these words he was * an active supporter of the Parliamentary... | |
 | Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - Egypt - 1908 - 624 pages
...task, he naturally came in for a good deal of criticism from both quarters. He might often have said : In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Moreover, Tewfik Pasha possessed another very valuable quality. He knew his country and his countrymen... | |
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