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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c - Page 17
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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Englishness and National Culture

Antony Easthope - Art - 1999 - 292 pages
...Templers ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? (1965, p. 604) It would be hard to miss the main irony here, that the sustained use of the conditional...
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The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...Templers ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 36 Atticus is being satirized for a combination of power mania and cowardly indirectness as well as...
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The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in ...

George Justice - History - 2002 - 302 pages
...ends with a couplet built upon the antithesis of nostalgia and satire: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he! (11. 213-14) As the ensuing lines of the poem declare, and as the opening of the poem enacted, the...
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...While wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raife, And wonder with a foolifi: face of praife — Who but mud laugh, if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Attlcus were he * ! THIS is that famous character of ADDISON -}-, which has been fo much com" It is...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume I

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
...Athens. His biography is found in Nepor. The English Atticus. Joseph Addison. Who but must laugh if such a man there be. Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? Pope, Prologue to the Satires. At'tila, one of the tragedies of Pierre Corneille (1667). This king...
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W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he? Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue...
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西洋文學術語手冊

張錯 - Literature - 2005 - 360 pages
...Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise @ Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? s 祝此類君子平安大吉@ 也許其中有一位 火炬般點燃天才, 鼓舞他們揚名立萬;...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise; Who but must laugh if such a man there be, Who would not weep if Atticus were he?" "I sent the verses to Mr. Addison," said Pope, "and he used me very civilly ever after." No wonder...
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