 Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.  The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Página 157de Alexander Pope - 1751Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 páginas
...tremble at your throne. But verfe, alas ! your majefty difdains, And I'm not us'J to panegyric {trains : Befides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praife, they fay I bite {. IT may be obfervcd, in general, that the imitations of thefe tivo epiftles of thefecond book of... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 páginas
...— "But Verse alas! your Majesty disdains; /And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains:/. . ./ Besides, a fate attends on all I write, /That when I aim at praise, they say I bite./ A vile Encomium doubly ridicules . . ." — he also borrows Swift's implicit... | |
 | Robin Dix - 2006 - 426 páginas
...stance.22 In his Horatian epistle "To Augustus," Pope had complained with ironic weariness: Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile Encomium doubly ridicules: There's nothing blackens like the ink of... | |
 | 1910 - 844 páginas
...strains: The zeal of fools offends at any time. But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. There is far less political passion in this than in the verses of Gray upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 páginas
...strains: 405 The Zeal of Fools offends at any time, But most of all, the Zeal of Fools in rhyme. Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise, they say I bite. A vile Encomium doubly ridicules: 410 There's nothing blackens like the ink... | |
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