 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
 | 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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...prose-man, term me what 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. Though satire is his weapon, he is too discreet to run a-muck and tilt at all he meets. Peace is my... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...finds but short repose, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1932 Pope: Satire v. Line 300. In moderation placing all my glory. While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest scandal of their age. i!,34 Young... | |
 | George Herbert Palmer - English poetry - 1918 - 338 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. Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. The Muse shall sing,... | |
 | George Herbert Palmer - English poetry - 1918 - 336 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. Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. The Muse shall sing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 pages
...Prose-man, term me what 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 a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors.... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - Human information processing - 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 - English 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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