My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or 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. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c - Seite 43von Alexander Pope - 1752Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...simple pride for flatt'ry makes demands, May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hand? POPE. 418 419 In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. POPE. My retreat the best companions grace, Chiels out of war, and statesmen out of place. POPE. Jarring... | |
| Modern Language Association of America - 1900 - 626 Seiten
...Verse-man or Prose-man, term me what you will, Papist or Protestant or both between, Like good Erasmus placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.8 For Horace's "hand ignobilis Argis,"7 who took pleasure in a theatre of his own imagination,... | |
| 1901 - 500 Seiten
...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.« Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er sich gegen... | |
| 1901 - 530 Seiten
...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.< Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er sich gegen... | |
| 1901 - 1244 Seiten
...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.c Eine stelle aus einem briefe Pope's, wo er auf diese äusserung zurückkommt, zeigt, wie er... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...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. I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our Army!... | |
| William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 Seiten
...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 Opposition.... | |
| William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 Seiten
...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... | |
| Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - 1908 - 624 Seiten
...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... | |
| George Paston - 1909 - 420 Seiten
...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... | |
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