...Poor, guiltless I ! and can I choose hut smite, When every coxcomh knows me hy my style ? Cursed he the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innucence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear : But he who hurts...

...one gasp be o'er, The Muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more ! FROM THE FI'ISTLE TO DR. AKBUTH NOT. CURST be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts...

...Poor guiltless 1 1 and can I choose but smile, When every coxcomb knows me by my style í \ Cursed Rn1r Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft -eyed virgin steal a tear! | But he who hurts...

...resolution. He can hardly be supposed to have been quite sincere, when he eloquently exclaimed, Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Because it is inconsistent with his attack on the Duke of Chandoa in the character of Timon, and the...

...resolution. He can hardly be supposed to have been quite sincere, when he eloquently exclaimed, Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Because it is inconsistent with his attack on the Duke of Chandos in the character of Timon, and the...

...resolution. He can hardly be supposed to have been quite sincere, when he eloquently exclaimed. Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. and honor. Atterbury on his first perusal of the lines was struck with their energy and truth, and,...

...makes. Poor guiltless I ! and can I choose but smile, When every coxcomb knows me by my style ? Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts...

...kindness, your smile of approbation ! you would not, either in prose or verse, risk a censorious remark. " Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe I " SYLVANDER. No. XI. Tuesday Morning, 29th January. I CANNOT go out to-day, my dearest Clarinda,...

...there no offence in't ? Ham. No, no, they do but jest ; no offence i' the world. Curst be the line, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — POPE. /v ' - ' . - . ." ,' J v/> -'-: LONDON : SMITH, ELDER, & CO., CORNHILL. 1842. PREFACE. FEW,...

...man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine ', any other consideration is a trifle. To please others...nothing against it. I should, however, be sorry to oflend worthy men: ' Carat be the verse, how well soe'er it flow. That tend) to make one worthy man...