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" Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise. "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c - Page 155
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...strains : The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There 's nothing blackens like the ink...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...strains : The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all, the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...strains : 405 The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : 410 There 's nothing blackens like the...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...strains : The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all, the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, praise they say 1 bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : ~ ч« 's nothing blackens like the ink...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...strains : The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all, the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, ious love inspires ; Let female fears submit to f praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: The ghost, bk. IV. The candidate ...

Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...IBS 1'9] Churchill as well as Pope might justly say of himI am not used to panegyric strains, Hesides a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. And loves to praise, where praise is justly due. Come, panegyric — in a...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...: 405 The zeal of ' fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say m I bite. A vile " encomium doubly ridicules: 410 There's nothing blackens like the...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...strains : The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all, the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There 's nothing blackens like the ink...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...author of it Perhaps somedd correspondents can trace the source from which he; rived it : — " Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules; There's nothing blackens like the ink of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules: 410 There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woeful likeness; and if lies, " Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise:" Well may he blush, who gives...
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