Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; 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:... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 293by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1864 - 496 pages
...obliged; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause ; While wils and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with...man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? " Before we speak of that portion of Addison's writings upon which is chiefly based his enduring... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...that he ne'er obliged. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? " In the same year Addison wrote a few papers, probably without any intention of continuing them,... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...that he ne'er obliged. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? " In the same year Addison wrote a few papers, probably j without any intention of continuing them,... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...he ne'er obliged ; Like Onto, gives his little senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...there be, Who would not weep if Atticus were he?" • " I sent the verses to Mr. Addison," said Pope, " and he used me very civilly ever after ; and... | |
| 1881 - 970 pages
...give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'vy sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of...man there be ! Who would not weep if Atticus were he ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
| 1881 - 972 pages
...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...man there be ! Who would not weep if Atticus were he ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause: 8 ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I dr AWP; InPK; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What?... | |
| William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 pages
...will trust." The famous Atticus portrait ends on an even more emphatic assertion of wide agreement: "Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? / Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?" Every satiric victim can be seen to unify the poet and all the rest of society: everyone else will... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his litde senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And...What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds... | |
| Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pages
...Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templers ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of...there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 36 Atticus is being satirized for a combination of power mania and cowardly indirectness as well as... | |
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