 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading cv'n fools, by flatterers bcsieg'd, un : ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish fbce of praise — Who but... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...Alike 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...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 - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...Scient lib. 3. p. 180. And the thought was also used by Ld. Orrery, and by Denham. Dreading ev'n Fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er...laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 210 VARIATIONS. After Ver. 208 in the MS. Who, if two Wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...3. p. 180. And the thought was also used by Ld. Orrery, and by Denham. NOTES. Dreading ev'n Fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er...laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 210 VARIATIONS. After Ver. 208 in the MS. Who, if two Wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools; by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he 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 must... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...forget Atticus, " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a doubt, and hesitate dislike : Like Cato, give his little 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 :" or, " Full-blown... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, lies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the...[main. And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...concerned ? Bowles. Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive...to his own applause ; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — NOTES. Ver. 209. Like Cato, give]... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...was concerned ? Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— NOTES. * Ver. 209. Like Cato, give]... | |
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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... 
