 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...the Dunciad, that Pope merits the highest applause. ' Personal danger he affected to despise : — What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand...gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a start * He felt with exultation this proud power : — Yes, I am proud, I must be proud, to see Men... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 pages
...in it to lift him above mere prose. In one of his most animated passages, Pope relates his desire to "Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash...car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star." For the moment he takes himself seriously ; and, indeed, he seems to have persuaded both himself and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...sixpences, so called from the impress of the SuveP. What ! armed for Virtue when I point the pen,1 Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men ; ' Dash...in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that lurks heneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the Church, or guardians of the... | |
 | New England - 1903 - 820 pages
...stanza, or prologue, is apt and superior to the author's usual verse : "What! arm'd for virtue, and not point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless, guilty men, Dash the proud Gamester from his gilded car, Bare the mean heart which lurks beneath a star." With this and similar stanzas... | |
 | English periodicals - 1893 - 822 pages
...he was pre-eminently a prose-writer. Pope, indeed, aspired to be a satirist. He wished, he said, to Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash...car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star. Moreover, he fancied that he succeeded, for he writes : Yes ! — I am proud — I must be proud to... | |
 | Alice Brown - Authors, American - 1896 - 346 pages
...that her Prologue " cannot fail of pleasing at this crisis " : — " What ! arm'd for virtue, and not point the pen. Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud Gamester from his gilded car, Bare the mean heart which lurks beneath a star. 166 Shall I not strip the gilding... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1898 - 234 pages
...it to lift him above more prose. In one of his most animated passages, Pope relates his desire to " Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud gamester in his gildeil car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star." For the moment he takes himself seriously... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1900 - 626 pages
...resolve — Detrahere et pellem, nitidus qua quisque per ora Cederet, introrsum turpis — * Pope vows to Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men ; Dash...; Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star.' Again he will enlarge a word or phrase as "This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race"4 for "genus... | |
 | Philip Morin Freneau - United States - 1902 - 420 pages
...Whigs & Cliosophians | in which | the former obtained a compleat Victory. — Arm'd for virtue now we point the pen Brand the bold front of shameless, guilty men Dash the proud Tory in his gilded Car Bare the mean heart that hides beneath a star." It opens with ten " pastorals"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...song! Plums and directors, Shylock and his wife, Will club their testers now to take your life. P. What? arm'd for Virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, text Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a Star; Can... | |
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What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, 106 Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the church... 
