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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 231
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me 1 let me only find, 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. F. Why, yes: with Scripture still you may be free ; A horse-laugh,...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Books - 1856 - 526 pages
...favours 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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Contributions to the Edinburgh review, Volume 1

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 pages
...favours 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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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 108

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...to refuse an unreasonable demand, and up springs a patriot." Hence Pope's epigrammatic couplet — Would he oblige me ? let me only find He does not think me what he tliinks mankind.* But Lord Brougham demands that before we condemn Sir Robert of exaggerated misanthropy,...
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Things Not Generally Known: Curiosities of History

John Timbs - History - 1858 - 272 pages
...thought all mankind rogues, and to have remarked that every one had his price. Pope refers to this : " Would he oblige me, let me only find He does not think me what he thinks mankind." Or as he at first printed it : " He thinks one poet of no venal kind." That Walpole said something...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...exchang'd for power ; 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 ; The only difference is — I dare laugh out. 8 See note 4 vol. ii. p. 122. * Gaoler of the Fleet...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...for power ; 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. Come, come, at all 1 laugh he laughs, no doubt The only difference is, I dare laugh out. F. Why, yes : with Scripture...
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Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...ill-exchanged for power; Seen him, uncumber'd with a venal tritte, Smile without art, and win without a bribo Would he oblige me ? let me only find. He does not...mankind. Come, 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 fic« A horse-laugh,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...find, 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. F. Why, yes : with Scripture still you may be free, A horse-laugh, if you please, at Honesty; A joke on JEKYL,* or some odd Old...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...exchang'd for power ; 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 ; The only difference is — I dare laugh out. 8 See note4, vol. ii. p. 122. * Gaoler of the Fleet...
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