...autobiographical poems, he loved to represent this detachment from party as the effect of philosophy : — In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.1 Yet at the time when he wrote these words he was * an active supporter of the Parliamentary...

...task, he naturally came in for a good deal of criticism from both quarters. He might often have said : In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Moreover, Tewfik Pasha possessed another very valuable quality. He knew his country and his countrymen...

...prose-man, 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, and Whigs a Tory. Though satire is his weapon, he is too discreet to run a-muck and tilt at all he meets. Peace is my...

...finds but short repose, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1932 Pope: Satire v. Line 300. In moderation placing all my glory. While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest scandal of their age. i!,34 Young...

...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. Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. The Muse shall sing,...

...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. Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. The Muse shall sing,...

...Prose-man, 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, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 Thieves, Supercargoes,...

...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, and Whigs a Tory."1 He could even have a good word for Sir Robert : " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour...

...Here is what is perhaps a borderline instance of what I have been pointing to, a couplet of Pope's: "In Moderation placing all my Glory, / While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory."15 Here, the parallel plural-singular l pluralsingular cuts across the chiasm with satiric force:...

...Prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or hoth hetween, Like good Erasmus in an honest Mean, In Moderation placing all my Glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. (45-68) Pope cleverly updates Milonius and Castor and Pollux into contemporary examples. He throws...