 My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Page 43by Alexander Pope - 1752Full view - About this book
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...Frontlefs and fatire-proof he fcow'rs the (I reel», And runs an Indian muck at all. he meets. DRYDbN. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too difcreet, To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. POPE. But Johnfon concludes by declaring, that he knows not the derivation of the phrafe. D'Ifraelî,... | |
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