 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...Arbuthnot, — thus giving a pointed meaning to an otherwise unintelligible couplet, — " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit." There is extant, moreover, a copy of verses addressed by Pope to Gay, — occasioned, it seems, by... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...consciousness of his wasted attachment. He makes this confession with extreme bitterness,— Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and significant,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, lie gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft hy nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was hit ; This dreaded satirist Dennis will confeas Foe to his pride, hut friend to his distress ! So humhle,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...shire ; 365 If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...of the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's car, or lose his owa. Yet soA by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit ; This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress ! So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1850 - 790 pages
...acquaintance was, therefore, that she had outwitted him ; and the truth, by the corrected lines, Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit, is most fairly proved ; for if (argues Mr. Dallaway) he were outwitted by ¡i female wit, and by Sappho,... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's car, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupo e wall of Heaven, Though distant far, some small reflection gains sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his prido but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...shire ; 365 If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own.4* Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit: This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knocked... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho * can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
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If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit... 
