 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Drrading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er...his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applanse; While wita anoV templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise—... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend - • • Dreading ev'n fools ; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er...his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applanse ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise —... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading cv'n fools ; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er...his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applanse; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Alike rescrv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er...Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive te his own applause ; 210 While wiU and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg"d; And so obliging, that he ne'er...senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Who but must... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...the worst the best; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise, What pity, Heaven! if such a man there be; Who would not weep, if AHDISON * were ho! * The quarrel... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...the worst the best) Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise, What pity, Heaven ! if such a man there be; Who would not weep, if ADDISON * were he! * The quarrel... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...suspicious friend ; preading even fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And 90 obliging, that be ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws. And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars, every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...1715. ' [Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but likes the worst the best ;] Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, hy flatterers hesieged, And so ohliging that he ne'er ohliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who hut... | |
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were... 
