 My head and heart thus flowing thro' 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.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Page 43by Alexander Pope - 1752Full view - About this book
 | 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 call me Whig, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 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 call me Whig, 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... | |
 | 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 - 1878 - 656 pages
...all my glory, 'While Tories call me ^Vhig, 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, Fhteves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove encrust Swords, pikes,... | |
 | 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 - 1881 - 196 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 weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a- muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 70 I only wear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between," 65 Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.3 Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; " »o I only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between,' es Like good Erasmus, in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.3 Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; * TO I only... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? From the IMITATIONS OF HORACE. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time, Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. There St. John mingles... | |
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