 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 426 lehte
...Epistle to 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 the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 lehte
...of the shire, 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 tell you how this man was bit ; *ro This dreaded Sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 lehte
...of the shire; 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 tell you how this man was bit; This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress ; So humble, he has knocked... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 198 lehte
...the shire; If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lose his own. 365 Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit ; This dreaded Sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 204 lehte
...the shire; If on a Pillory, or near a Throne, He gain his Prince's ear, or lose his own. 365 Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit ; Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd at Tibbald's door, 370 Has... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 lehte
...the shire; 365 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 tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knocked... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 lehte
...the shire; 365 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 tell you how this man was bit: This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knocked... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 lehte
...shire ; 365 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 tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble, he has knocked... | |
 | Emily Morse] [Symonds - 1907 - 630 lehte
...In the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot thfe poet alludes to the broken friendship in the lines— "Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. 1 Safe as he thought, tho' all the prudent chid, He wrote no libels, but my Lady did." This was a misstatement,... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 672 lehte
...In the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot the poet alludes to the broken friendship in the lines — "Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit.1 Safe as he thought, tho' all the prudent chid, He wrote no libels, but my Lady did." This was... | |
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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 tell you how this man was bit... 
