| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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 sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...of 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 - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 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 Sat'rist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but Friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft might fallen or happe ; And yet this Manciple sette hir aller cappe. The Reve was a slen sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...the shir* ; 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 bis distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
| Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...hais sous le froc, ainsi que sous la mitre ; Chevalier d'industrie, ou chevalier en titre ; P 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 - 1824 - 494 pages
...shire ; 865 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 Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...was bit: This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door, Has drunk with Cibber, nay, has rhymed for Moore. Full ten years slander'd, did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the shire : If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gains 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... | |
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