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
| sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 148 pages
...am Protestant, Catholic, Whig, Radical, or Tory ? Who could say but that I may be a sort of Erasmus, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory 1 Moderation ! One may practise it ; but where shall he find it ? " Simpleton !" writes Gray to Mason,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 662 pages
...make; but to whomsoever the palm of this glory may he due, I can claim no part of it. In independence placing all my glory; , While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. Yet, sir, I cannot, said Mr. ADAMs, but express my regret that this House, for which 1 feel and have... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...Proseman, term me which you will, ' Papist or Protestant, or hoth hetween, Like good Erasmus in an honest s and fire A Gothic lihrary ! of Greece and Rome Well purged, and worthy Settle, Banks Satire 's my weapon, hut I'm loo discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
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| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
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| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
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| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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...me whig, and whigs a tory. Satire's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves,... | |
| Thomas M'Crie - Agnew, Andrew Sir, Bart., 1793-1840 - 1850 - 478 pages
...extreme parties into which men were then divided. He felt himself in the predicament of the poet — " In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory." On the one hand, "Mr M. Stewart (inadvertently no doubt) represented him to have stated that he would... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
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