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" Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind. "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Page 275
by Alexander Pope - 1752
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The Poet and His Audience

Ian Jack - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 214 pages
...ill-exchang'd for Pow'r; Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not...come, at all I laugh he laughs, no doubt; The only diff rence is, I dare laugh out. In the Second Dialogue we notice even more clearly Pope's situation...
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Women's Place in Pope's World

Valerie Rumbold - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 342 pages
...uncumher'd with the Venal trihe. Smile without Art, and win without a Brihe Would he ohlige me? lci me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh He laughs, no douht. The only diffrence is, I dare laugh out. (line 29; TE, IV, 300) Her foolhardy twisting of the...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...for power; 30 Seen him, uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not...come, at all I laugh he laughs, no doubt; The only difference is, I dare laugh out. F. Why yes: with scripture still you may be free; A horse-laugh, if...
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Studies in Criticism and Aest

Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...ill-exchang'd for Pow'r; Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not...no doubt, The only diff'rence is, I dare laugh out. (11. 28-36) Unlike the politician and the poet, both afraid to express their honest feelings, Pope...
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Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-government ...

Tone Sundt Urstad - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 306 pages
...hours, conforms in many respect to the image of Walpole's private self that his minions tried to create: He does not think me what he thinks mankind. Come,...come, at all I laugh He laughs, no doubt, The only difference is, I dare laugh out. (Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue 1, 11. 29-36) The same aspect is...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...for Pow'r; 30 Seen him, uncumber'd with a Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not...mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs, no doubt ; 35 The only diff'rence is, I dare laugh out. A joke on JEKYL, or some odd old Whig Who never chang'd...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 37; Volume 71

English literature - 1840 - 630 pages
...tavours to come. The opinion of mankind which such speeches as these imported, made Pope say, — ' Would he oblige me ? Let me only find He does not think me what he thinks mankind.' But if it is certain that his low estimate of public virtue, always openly, perhaps too openly, expressed,...
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