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" Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. "
The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Page 51
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 2

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...character of satirist, may claim a moral purpose: 'Hear this and tremble, you who escape the Icms; Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave.' ' We must acknowledge his service to us in reflecting, with curious completeness, the thoughts of his...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...satirist, may claim a moral purpose: 1 lle.ir thi- and tremble, you who escape the lawt; Yes, while J live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave.' ' We must acknowledge his service to us in reflecting, with curious completeness, the thoughts of his...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...man's heir or slave ? I will, or perish in the gen'rous canse; Hear this, and tremble! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave...To VIRTUE only and her Friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto and...
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American Literary Criticism

William Morton Payne - American essays - 1904 - 350 pages
...man's heir, or slave? I will, or perish in the generous cause : Hear this, and tremble, you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit to his grave." It will be observed that the fault reaches to the repetition of the very words. We might go on multiplying...
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Early American Plays, 1714-1830: A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and ...

Oscar Wegelin - American Drama - 1905 - 118 pages
...peri/h fo.thf gen raits cauh ; Hear this and trtmble, ye who 'ftep* the laws ; 3^/ f while 1 livej no rich or noble, knave, Shall walk the world in credit to his grave t To virtue only, and her fritndt, a friend, The world befide may murmur, or commend* BOSTON: Printed...
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Mr. Pope, His Life and Times, Volume 2

George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...man's heir or slave ? I will, or perish in the generous cause. Hear this and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. To Virtue only, and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend. Know, all the distant...
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Representative Plays by American Dramatists, Volume 1

Montrose Jonas Moses - American drama - 1918 - 700 pages
...man's heir, or slave? I will, or perish in the gen'rous cause; Hear this and tremble, ye who 'scape the laws; Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave, Shall walk the world in credit to his grave; To virtue only, and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend. DRAMATIS PERSONS...
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English Satire and Satirists

Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 344 pages
...all the more incumbent upon him to lash vice and to foster virtue. This is the aim of his satire. " Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend." The same doctrine...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...man's heir, or slave? I will, or perish in the gen'rous cause: Hear this, and tremble ! you, who 'scape the Laws : Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. ia> To VIRTUE ONLY AND HER FRIENDS, A FRIEND, The World beside may murmur, or commend. Know, all the...
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The Hypochondriack: Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...well have their bodies put to the test of physick, as 8 Boswell quotes from memory Sat., I. 119-120: Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Pope is "in his best frame" in the Universal Prayer, 37-38. The allusion is made again in Hyp. 29....
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