| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pages
...can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...vein of poetry, if made at th» expence of Truth or Innocence. Curft be the verfe, how well fo e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe ; Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd virgin fteal a tear. (Sentiments, which no efforts... | |
| George Canning - 1763 - 120 pages
...blifs to find, 165 " In a free mufe and independent mind, *« To * curfe the verfe how well foe'er it flow, * That tends to make one worthy man my foe, * Give virtue fcandal, innocence a fear, ' Or from the foft-ey'd virgin draw a tear,' 170 " You taught me too, all... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...vein of poetry, if made at the expence of truth and innocence. " Curft be the verfe, how well foe'cr it flow, " That tends to make one worthy Man my " foe, " Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, " Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear." Such a noble generofity and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...fuperior far to thine, Let laurel'd Cibber and great Arnal mine. Why Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, agj Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a Tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs... | |
| sir Herbert Croft (5th bart.) - 1780 - 324 pages
...would heartily fay with Pope, and as well of profe as of verfe, Curft he the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to, make one worthy man my foe; Give virtue fcandal, innocence a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd virgin fteal a tear ! The Publifhers, however, of... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...Queenfberry would not have fo betrayed her poetical friend Gay. 24. Curs'd be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue fcandal, innocence a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd virgin fteal a tear* ! M. DESPREAUX s'applaudifToit... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...weep, if Atticus were he ! IBID. p. IS7. CALUMNY AND FALSEHOOD. CURST be the Verfe, how wel} foe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin ileal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs... | |
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