 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...— Nor can weak truth your reputation save, The knaves will all agree to call you knave : WYong'd shall he live , insulted o'er, opprest , "Who dares be less a villain than the rest. Thus , sir, you see what human nature craves ; . Most men are cowards, all men should be knaves. The... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save, The knaves will all agree to call you knave : fWrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, "Who dares be less a villain than the rest. Thus,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...you think it fair, Amongst known cheats, to play upon the square, You Ml be undone Nor can weak truth your reputation save ; The knaves will all agree to call you knave. WrwifrM shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest Thus here... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...you think it fair, Amongst known cheats, to play upon the square, You'll be undone Nor can weak truth that thy softening soul At length may learn what energy...passion swelling with distress and pain, To mitigat Thus here you see what human nature craves, Most men are cowards, all men should be knaves. The difference... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 368 pages
...LETTER XXXV. " Behold, sir Balaam, now a man of Ascribes bis gettings to his parts and merit." POPI. ** Weak truth cannot your reputation save, The knaves...that when any books had not gone off so rapidly as expected, or so fast as to pay for keeping them in store, they would put what remained of such articles... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...you think it fair Among known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone. Nor can weak truth your reputation save, The knaves will all agree to call you knave; • Long shall he live, insulted or oppress'd, Who dares be less a villian than the rest. EARL OF ROCHESTER.... | |
 | 1830 - 372 pages
...satisfaction. I am, dear friend, yours. LETTER XXXV. " Behold, sir Balaam, now a man of spirit, Asciibes his gettings to his parts and merit." POPE. " Weak truth...than the rest." SATIRE AGAINST MAN. DEAR FRIEND, WHEN I was first initiated into the various manoeuvres practised by booksellers, i found it customary among... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square You'll be undone Nor can weak truth your reputation save ; The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wronged shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest. Thus here... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...— Nor can weak truth your reputation save; 160 The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wronged shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest. Thus here you see what human nature craves, Most men are cowards, all men should be knaves. 165 The... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to...opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest. Thus, sir, you see what human nature craves: Most men are cowards, all men should be knaves. The difference... | |
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Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares... 
