| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...dupe than wit, Sappho ean tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will eonfess knoek'd at TibbahPs door, Has drunk with Cibber, nay, has rhyn.'d for More. Full ten years slsnder'd,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 Seiten
...corrupt, or of the sluro ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose bis own. he ridiculum and the fustian in them as Gibber, nay, has rhymed for Moor*. Full ten yeara slander'd, did he once reply? Three thousand suns... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...corrupt, or of the shire ; If on a pillar or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can...was bit, This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Poe to his pride, but friend to his distress ! So humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door, Has drunk... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...the shire ; If on a pillory, nr near a throne, He gain his prince's car, or lose hi* own. Yet »oft s the animal he doom« his feast. And, till he ends the being, makes it b ; Tha dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to bis pride, but friend to his distress ! So humble,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...or of the shire ; 305 If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can...was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door, Has... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 Seiten
...the snire j If on a pillory, or near a throne, He rai hit pnacs .s ear, or ioss ns own. Yet soft hy nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this mnn was hit ; This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, hut friend to his distress... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 430 Seiten
...acquaintance 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... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 Seiten
...by the 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 bit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and significant,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 512 Seiten
...Mary's 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... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 556 Seiten
...Mary's 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... | |
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