| Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 ページ
...pen, ready not only to bark but (so his verbs suggest) to bite: To rowze the Watchmen of the Publick Weal, To Virtue's Work provoke the Tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. (lines 217-19) The idea that the patriot-poet might somehow serve the nation... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 ページ
...may give thee, but the Gods must guide : ?is Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honest zeal ; To rouse the Watchmen of the public Weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains, 220 That counts your Beauties... | |
| 1881 - 620 ページ
...Muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide : Reverent I touch thee, but with honest zeal ; To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall. Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains That counts your beauties only... | |
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