 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - Political Science - 1995 - 658 pages
...strains: The Zeal of 1"Fools offends at any time, But most of all, the Zeal of Fools in ryme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say Il2i hite. A vile '"Encomium douhly ridicules; There's nothing hlackens like the ink... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...the poem But Verse alas! your Majesty disdains; And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains ... Besides, a fate attends on all I write. That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile Encomium doubly ridicules ... (404ff.). A final hint which Pope took... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...course the satirist produces a blueprint for the poem in his very own mock befuddlement: "Besides, a fate attends on all I write, / That when I aim at praise, they say I bite" (lines 408-09). When not insulting the reigning British king, Pope attempts... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...in epic strains, and in so doing he explains the method of his whole satire on George II: 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...tremble at your throne. But verfe, alas ! your majefty difdains, And I'm not us'J to panegyric {trains : Befides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praife, they fay I bite {. IT may be obfervcd, in general, that the imitations of thefe tivo epiftles of thefecond book... | |
 | Michael McKeon - History - 2006 - 942 pages
...— "But Verse alas! your Majesty disdains; /And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains:/. . ./ Besides, a fate attends on all I write, /That when I aim at praise, they say I bite./ A vile Encomium doubly ridicules . . ." — he also borrows Swift's implicit... | |
 | Robin Dix - Literary Collections - 2006 - 426 pages
...stance.22 In his Horatian epistle "To Augustus," Pope had complained with ironic weariness: 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... | |
 | 1910 - 844 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. There is far less political passion in this than in the verses of Gray upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 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 ink... | |
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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. 
