...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...

...cures because the remedy is loved. LORD MULGRAVE. Pointed satire runs him through and through. OLD HAM. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. POPE. Satire is no more : I feel it die : No gazetteer more innocent than I. POPE. But touch me, and...

...cures because the remedy is loved. LORD MULORAVE. Pointed satire runs him through and through. OLDHAM. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. POPE. Satire is no more : I feel it die : No gazetteer more innocent than I. POPE. But touch me, and...

...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; I only wear it in a laud of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, aud directors. Save but our army...

...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...

...or to commend, A tim'rous foe, nod a suspicious friend. a. POPE — Prologue to Kat'.res. Line 201. ded— equal must b. POPE — Second Book of Horace. Satire I. Bk. II. Line 69. There are, to whom my Satire seems too...

...writes : " Fromless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope : " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet, To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet." It is not improbable that the origin of this expression was, their...

...„And runs an Indian muck at all hè meets." En Pope volgde hem na in zijne vertaling van Horatius : „Satire's my weapon , but I'm too discreet „To run a muck and tilt at all I meet." Dit Engelsche muck heeft een Franschen schrijver , den heer Radau , in de „Revue des Deux Mondes",...

...the a being detached from muck as if it were the indefinite article. Of. Pope, Satires, j. 69, 70 : Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. " The original reading of the text, as late as 1874, was " a Malayan muck " ; cf. Dry den, The Hind...

...satire-proof, he scours the streets, And -•:'••. an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope— M Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a...meet." Johnson could not discover the derivation of he word muck* To " run a muck " is an old >hrase for attacking madly and indiscriminately ; and has...