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. The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Page 157by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of... | |
| Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...: 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 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... | |
| Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 478 pages
...strains : 405 The Zeal of Fools offends at any time, But most of all, the Zeal of Fools in rime. 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... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1900 - 332 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. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of... | |
| Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1900 - 626 pages
...he says he dare not address George II in panegyric strains,4 and continuing he declares — Besides a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite.6 1 in, 13. 'Cf. Ep. to Arbuthnot, 1. 269. 11 m, 17. Cf. vi, 28. 4v, 405 f.... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...strains. The zeal of fools offeuds 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 hite. A vile encominm doubly ridicules: 410 There 's nothing blackens like the ink... | |
| Charles William Previté-Orton - English poetry - 1910 - 264 pages
...strains: The zeal of fools offends at any time, And 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. In this way the tradition of Dryden attained its highest success. But it was... | |
| Literature - 1910 - 852 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... | |
| Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...strains. The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, the sky: So was it when my life began; So praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : 410 There 's nothing blackens like the ink... | |
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