...was, therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, N kj I "Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit," (2) is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted...

...consciousness of his wasted attachment. He makes this confession with extreme bitterness, — Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was hit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and...

...acquaintance was, therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted...

...acquaintance was, therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted...

...Magazine, 1791, p. 420. to which the Editor is indebted. § Epistle to Arbuthnot, 1, 368. " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how thia man was bit."* is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho,...

...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft air. Thus song could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard and how glor satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd...

...man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to his distress : nto the stream 'he speckled captive throw. But should you lure 'rom his dark rhyro'd for Moor Full ten years slander'd, did he once reply Ï Three thousand suns went down on Welsted'i...

...man was bit: This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to his distress : thousands err.' " Whom the grand foe, with scornful...askance, Thus answered. • 1ll for thee, but in wi slander'd.did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's lie. To please his mistress...

...the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft sat'risl Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to liis distress: So humble, he has knock'd...

...Arbuthnot, — thus giving a pointed meaning to an otherwise unintelligible couplet, — " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit." There is extant, moreover, a copy of verses addressed by Pope to Gay, — occasioned, it seems, by...