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" Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he... "
Selections from the English Poets: Wit and humor - Page 214
by Leigh Hunt - 1854
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1796 - 500 pages
...205 Dreading ev'a foals, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws. And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...would not grieve if such a. man there b; ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he ? tt last it is, , Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Auicus were he ? He -was at this tima at open war with Lord Hervey, who had distill* Tiisbed himself...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg'd ; And so obliging, that he ne'er obligM. Like Cato give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Who but must laugh, if such a man there...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...friend ; Dreading ev'n fools ; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 210 While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 522 pages
...; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to...laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if ATTICUS were he * ? Mr. Ruffhead in his life of Pope has attempted to substantiate this malignant...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...; Dreading'ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd; And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause, While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise—- Who but must laugh, if such a man...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...friend ; Dreading ev'n fools; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templan every sentence raise, And wonder -with a foolish face of praise— Who but must langh if such...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers hesieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 810 While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 213 While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applanse ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must langh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric...
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