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" 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 157
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and Notes

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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed., with Notes and Introductory Memoir

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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

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...
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From Milton to Tennyson: Masterpieces of English Poetry

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...
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Latin Classics ...

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...
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Volume 8; Volume 15

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....
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

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...
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Political Satire in English Poetry

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...
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The Living Age, Volume 265

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...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

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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