 Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Page 29by Alexander Pope - 1752Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...early left the more poetical provinces of his art, to become a moral, didactic, and. fatiric poet. 27. Of gentle blood * (part fhed in honour's caufe, While...in Britain honour had applaufe) Each parent fprung ; what fortune pray. their own, Aiul better got than Beftia's from the throne. * When Mr. Pope pnbliftied... | |
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..., That harmlefs Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! 38, Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! If there be...fortune, pray? — P. Their own, 390 And better got, than Re/lia's from the throne. had fallen frorrta like'Ccurily pin, in certain Ferfes to the Imitator... | |
 | Eschenburg - Literature - 1788 - 472 pages
...fool That harmlefs mother thought no wife a whore! Hear this, and fpare his family, jf antes Mo.or^ 1 Unfpotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in fong Of gentle blood (part fhed in Honour's caufç Each parent fprung. — A. What fortune, pray?f... | |
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...to ca'l our neighbour fool : That harmlefs Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable...Honour's caufe, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) VARIATION. Ver 368, in the MS. Once, and but once, his heedlefs youth was bit, And lik'd that dangerous... | |
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...memorable long ! If there be' force in Virtue on n Song. Of gentle blood ( partlhed in Honour's caufc, While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe) Each parent fprung. — A. What fortune pray ? . own : And better got than Bejlia's from the throne. Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor... | |
 | Eschenburg - Literature - 1788 - 474 pages
...family, У ames Moore l Unfpotted names, and memorable long l ïf there be force in virtue, or in fong Qf gentle blood (part fhed in Honour's caufe While yet in Britain Honour had applaufe} Each Each parent fprung, — A. What fortune, pray?, P. Their own; And better got, than Beilia's from the... | |
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...: That harmlef» mother thought no wife a whore t íiear this, and fpare his family, James Moore ! Unfpotted names, and memorable long ! If there be force in virtue, or in fong. Of gentle blood (part (hed in honour's caufe, While yet in Britain honour had applaufe) Each... | |
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...to call our neighbour fool : That harmlefs Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this, and fpare his family, James Moore! 385 Unfpotted names, and memorable...long ! If there be force in Virtue, or in Song. Of VER. 381. His father, mother, £sV.] In fome of Curl's and other pamphlets, Mr. Pope's Father was faid... | |
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...harmless mother thought no wife a whore ; Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore ! 38* Unspotted names, and memorable long ! If there be force in virtue or in song. Of gentle blood (part shed in Honour's cause, While yet in Britain Honour had applause) Each parent sprung — A. What fortune,... | |
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