 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 886 pages
...applause ; While wits and 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... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...applause ; While wits and 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 ? " In the same year Addison wrote a few papers, probably without any intention of continuing them,... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 478 pages
...applause ; While wits and 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? " In the same year Addison wrote a few papers, probably j without any intention of continuing them,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...applause ; While wits and 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 ; and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. Line 207. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? Line 213. Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1866 - 654 pages
...laugh if Addison were he t" Then, " Who would not grieve if such a man there be f Who would not luugh if Addison were he ?" At last it is, " Who but must...man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were hef" "' He was at this time at open war with Lord Harvey, who had distinguished himself as a steady... | |
 | David Staats Burnet - 1866 - 24 pages
...sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. ****** Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ! " I would found here, upon this spot, an argument for ministerial ethics and the warmest and strongest... | |
 | Great Britain - 1881 - 970 pages
...applause ; While wits and Templars ev'vy 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 ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...applause ; While wits and Templars 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 ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause: 8 ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I dr AWP; InPK; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What?... | |
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Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise... 
