 In me what spots (for spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the medium must be clear. In this impartial glass, my muse intends Fair to expose myself, my foes, my friends; Publish the present age; but where my text Is vice too high, reserve it for...  Works: In English Verse - Page 118by Horace - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - Political Science - 1995 - 658 pages
...as old Montagne. In them, as certain to he lov'd as seen, The Soul stood forth, nor kept a Thought within; In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the Medium must he clear. In this impartial Glass, my Muse intends Fair to expose myself, my... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 364 pages
...seemed that of a monster and admitted (as he does in much of his poetry of the 1730s) to many faults: In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the Medium must be clear. In this impartial Glass, my Muse intends Fair to expose myself,...... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...moral integrity as "fine by defect," and bases the transparency of his virtue's medium on its spots: "In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, /Will prove at least the Medium must be clear."110 In the inverted mirror of what Satire II, i termed "this impartial... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...as old Montaigne: In them, as certain to be loved as seen, The soul stood forth, nor kept a thought within; In me what spots (for spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the medium must be clear. In this impartial glass, my muse intends Fair to expose myself, my... | |
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