...rabbit fondles his own harmless face. There's more truth than poetry in these lines of Alexander Pope: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. Yet, Carl Sandburg felt that there was a self-deception in saying that there was more truth than poetry...

...general point still stands. 24. Hooper ( 1935, 130-37). This is how these lines were later used by Pope, "The hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign. /and Wretches hang that Jury-Men may Dine" (The Rape of the Lock, 11L 21-22), and Gay. "For petty rogues submit to fate / That great ones may enjoy...

...In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet See LITIGATION Trust Trust everybody, but cut the cards. Finley...

...precariously balanced between a highly artificial formality and a constantly encroaching vulgarity.' 74 eg: 'The hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign, / And Wretches hang that Jury-Men may Dine' (p. 170, cant. in, lines 21-2). Such lines make it apparent that the harmonious nature of this age...

...world of serious affairs, of the world of business and law, an echo of the 'real' world:24 Mean while declining from the Noon of Day, The Sun obliquely...Wretches hang that Jury-men may Dine The Merchant from th' Exchange returns in Peace, And the long Labours of the Toilette cease. (lll, 19-24) It is part...

...eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining...from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his buming ray; 20 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; The...

...God I have run through a troop, and by God I will go through this death, and he will make it easy." 7 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "The Rape of the Lock," cto. 3, 1.21-2(1714). 8...

...eyes; At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining...of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; 20 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine; The merchant...

...lay the old aside. 8913 To George, Lord Lyttelton Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. 8914 m of London, small and white and clean, The clea 8915 Imitations of Horace Our Gen'rals now, retired to their estates. Hang their old trophies o'er...

...reference to a modern parallel: a couplet by the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander POPE l ) : The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. My first reaction, when I came across this couplet not long ago, was simply that POPE had penned a...