 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...Who would not grieve if fuch a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addifon were he ? At laft it is, Who but muft laugh if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, who had diftinguifhed himfelf as a fteady adherent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...would not grieve if fuch a man there be? Who would not laugh if Addifon were he ? 14 At At laft it is, Who but muft laugh if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, who had diflinguifhed himfelf as a fteady adherent... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...While wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raife, And wonder with a foolifh face of praife— Who but mart laugh, if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were hef -' THIS is that famous character of ADDISON *, which has been fo much commended for it's wit and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...friend ; Dread, Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers befieg'd. And fo obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd -t Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And fit attentive...there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ! IBID. p. IS7. CALUMNY AND FALSEHOOD. CURST be the Verfe, how wel} foe'er it flow, That tends to make... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...Wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raife, And wonder with a foolifti face of praife— Who but rnuft laugh, if fuch a man there be? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he ? What tho' my name Hood rubric on the walls, zie Or plaifter'd pofts, with claps, in capitals ? Or fmoaking forth, a hundred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...Who would not grieve if fuch a man there be? Who would not laugh if Addifon were he? At laft it is, Who but muft laugh if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, 1who had diftinguifhcd himfelf as a fteady adherent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...grifvc if fuch a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addifon were hci ts, Who but muft laugh if fiich a man there be? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? ., j. He was at this time at open war with Lord Hervey, who had diftingurfhed himfelf as a fteady... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1788 - 456 pages
...interpretation, there is nothing more eafy than to make quidlibet ex quolibet. r . : • " Who -would not laugh if fuch a, man there be ? • .** Who -would not -weep if Atticus -were he?" .1 will detain the reader but a moment longer, to hear what our author fays in juftification of fuch... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1788 - 448 pages
...of interpretation, there is nothing more eafy than to make quidlibet ex quolibet. " Who -would not laugh if fuch a man there be ? •• Who -would not -weep if Attinu -were he?" I will detain the reader but a moment longer, to hear what our author fays in juftification... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...give his little Senate laws, And fit attentive to his own applaufe; 2IO While Wits and Templars every fentence raife, And wonder with a foolifh face of...there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ! VARIATION. After ver. 2o8, in the MS. Who, if two Wits on rival themes conteft, Approves of each,... | |
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Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? 
