 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 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. Satire's my weapoir) but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in a land of Hectors,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 192 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 a muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 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 a muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...Walpole found' incorruptible. Papist or Protestant, or both between, C5 Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire 's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muok, and tilt at all I meet ; 70 I only wear it... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...fir simple pride for flatt'ry makes demands, May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands. 41 8 419 In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. " POPE. My retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. POPE.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...thrive, Indebted to no prince or peer alive." His neutral position is again indicated in the lines, — " In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory." But in principle it is clear that he infinitely preferred the politics of Locke to those of Filmer.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between ', Like good Erasmus in an honest Mear, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call...and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet j I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes,... | |
 | 1880 - 966 pages
...the old doggerel lines : — " 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." In descanting on patronage, our author brings an equally ungracious charge against Dissenting Churches.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...prose-man,1 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 a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; ' I only wear it in a land of hectors, Thieves, supercargoes,'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 200 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 a- muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves,... | |
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