 | 1925 - 1072 lehte
...sarcasm. Pope felt a call to denounce vice, corruption, hypocrisy and incompetence in high places : Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Few prominent men or women of the day escaped his lash. His pen was dipped in vitriol. This from his... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 lehte
...Men, Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car, Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star. . . Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.2 Pope, like Swift, is thinking more especially of those whom the law has failed to restrain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 lehte
...Heir, or Slave ? I will, or perish in the gen'rous Cause. Hear this, and tremble ! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. 120 TO VIRTUE ONLY and HER FRIENDS, A FRIEND The World beside may murmur, or commend. Know, all the... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 lehte
...sarcasm. Pope felt a Call to denounce vice, corruption, hypocrisy and incompetence in high places : Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Few prominent men or women of the day escaped his lash. His pen was dipped in vitriol. This from his... | |
 | Frank M. Tierney - 1985 - 170 lehte
...knavery of the world, ... or perish in the gen'rous Cause. Hear this, and tremble! You, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. To VIRTUE ONLY and HER FRIENDS, A FRIEND, The World beside may murmur, or commend. (Imitations of Horace:... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - 1989 - 180 lehte
...lawgiver and punisher himself, for the laws are now in abeyance: Hear this and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. (118-20) Influenced by Swift and tho long Hllfi flf WfllpOlQ, POP6'S POlltlcal disaffection and pessimism... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...amuck, and tilt at all I meet; (1. 69-70) 90 P - xed by her love, or libeled by her hate. (I. 84) 91 Z \ . To Virtue only and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend. (1. 119-122) 92... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 lehte
...increasingly to occupy writers of diverse political persuasion, giving point to Pope's threat in 1733: Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. (Satire II, i, 1 19-20) And it is to the pre-revolutionary world since displaced by credit and its... | |
 | Jacques Carré - 1994 - 232 lehte
...discourses of chivalry and romance, as well as of the literature of Augustan Rome. When Pope writes, "Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave/ Shall walk the World, in credit to his grave," he presumes on the reader's agreement as to how the rich and the noble should behave; if they fail... | |
 | Amelia Howe Kritzer - 1995 - 452 lehte
...man's heir or slave? I will or perish in the gen 'rous cause; Hear this and tremble, ye who 'scape the laws; Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave, Shall walk the world in credit to his grave: To virtue only, and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend.2 Boston: Printed... | |
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Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. 
