 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
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...proseman, term me what 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, anil Whigs a Tory. * Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, 65 Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 70 I only wear it... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 752 pages
...for tilting in the pit. Dryden. -It is not yet the fafhion fur women of quality o tit. Collier.— Satire's my weapon, but I'm too difcreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. •• To rnfh as in combat — Some fay the fpirits '// violently. Collitr. 4. To play unfteadily.—... | |
 | 1816 - 918 pages
...erfahren. SíSíe fo »tele , bte bad bliiibe Urtljcil ber 9Jíenge «erfolgt , f ann аиф er fagen : In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig , and Whigs a Tory. 5Baa 6ffenfl^e( Seitfcfcriften über i^n gefegt haben, ifr jum Zfyil au§ trüben ober unreinen ¿uelíen... | |
 | John Carey - English language - 1816 - 300 pages
...remarks on the structure and variations of this species of verse. Hypermeter, with double rhime — In moderation placing all my glo-\-ry, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a To-\-ry. (Pope. Iambic offourfeet, or eight syllables. of Plea-|-sure's glld-|-ed baits | beware, Nor tempt... | |
 | Joseph Fouché (duc d'Otrante) - France - 1818 - 250 pages
...moderation, will experience. Like so many others, who have been at the mercy of a blind public, he may sayIn moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. That which has been said respecting him in the Journals, has partly sprung from troubled and impure... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...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. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a... | |
 | 1823 - 500 pages
...belong to no party but our own. Each of us may individually describe himself in the lines of Pope : In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Such is a brief sketch of our political opinions. We trust that they will bear us out in the proud... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...proseman, term me which you will; Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest om the lake, a second multitude With wondrous art founded the massy ore, Sev'ring each Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in... | |
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