 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
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...Here is what is perhaps a borderline instance of what I have been pointing to, a couplet of Pope's: "In Moderation placing all my Glory, / While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory."15 Here, the parallel plural-singular l pluralsingular cuts across the chiasm with satiric force:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - Political Science - 1995 - 658 pages
...Prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or hoth hetween, Like good Erasmus in an honest Mean, In Moderation placing all my Glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. (45-68) Pope cleverly updates Milonius and Castor and Pollux into contemporary examples. He throws... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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...and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes,... | |
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