 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 7 Dartineuf, a great epicure, with whom Pope appears to have lived on good terms. I only wear it... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...To run a muck." Thus Uryden writes— "Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runt an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope— " Satire's my weapon, bnt I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet." Johnson could not discover the derivation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my giory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 7 I.)artineuf, a great epicure, with whom Pope appears to have lived on good tcrms. I only wear it... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...HORACE. Lord Fauny spins a thousand such a day. Book n. Satire i. Lint 6. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Book ii. Satire i. Line 69. But touch me, and no minister so sore ; Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...honest mean ; In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire 's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet : 70 I only wear it in a land of hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...in an honest Mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors, Save but our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. Satire's my weapoir) but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...HORACE. Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. Book n. Satire \. Lint 6. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Book ii. Satire i. Line 69. But touch me, and no minister so sore ; Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky... | |
 | 1890 - 548 pages
...danger of theft by supercargoes was known so long ago as Pope's day; Jurit Horace, book 2, sat. 1: ' Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck and tilt at all I meet, I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Th,eves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors.' " For once, poetry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our... | |
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I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove... 
