 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...was, therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, N kj I "Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit," (2) is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 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 hit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 556 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,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 512 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,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 410 pages
...Magazine, 1791, p. 420. to which the Editor is indebted. § Epistle to Arbuthnot, 1, 368. " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how thia man was bit."* is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft air. Thus song could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glor satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to his distress : nto the stream 'he speckled captive throw. But should you lure 'rom his dark rhyro'd for Moor Full ten years slander'd, did he once reply Ï Three thousand suns went down on Welsted'i... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...man was bit: This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to his distress : thousands err.' " Whom the grand foe, with scornful...askance, Thus answered. • 1ll for thee, but in wi slander'd.did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's lie. To please his mistress... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft sat'risl Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to liis distress: So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 470 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... | |
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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... 
