 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. With his last corrections, additions, and ... - Page 41by Alexander Pope - 1754Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 lehte
...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. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1893 - 432 lehte
...unprincipled borrowing of their own peculiar plumes. Smith was in the position of Pope's moderate man — " In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory." Thus the ' Daily Telegraph ' on July G : — The policy of the great Conservative party with respect... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1894 - 448 lehte
...unprincipled borrowing of their own peculiar plumes. Smith was in the position of Pope's moderate man — " In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory." The Liberal press taunted the Tories with having, for election purposes, stuck the label " Conservative... | |
 | 1895 - 768 lehte
...But mod'rato your expenses now, at first, As you may keep the same proportion still. • Sen Jbnson. In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. MODESTY— set, Beauty. P°Pe> Imit- "fXcrace, I. 2. 67. It is the witness still of excellency, To... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 - 532 lehte
...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 - 1246 lehte
...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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 lehte
...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.... | |
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