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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... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 128
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 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...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 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...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 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 sat'rist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 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 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 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 : 3 This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : * So humble,...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1881 - 638 pages
...bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : St» humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door, Has drunk with Cibber, nay has rhym'd for Moore, Full ten years slander'd, did he once reply? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's lie,...
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The Rape of the Lock, with the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: With Introductory ...

Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and Notes

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 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 conress Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd...
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