 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 ページ
...acquaintance was, therefore, that fhe had outwitted him ; and the truth, by the corrected lines, " Yet foft by Nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit;" is moft fairly proved : for if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 ページ
...mellow, applied to good fellowship: In all thy humours, whether grave or Or of bite, used for cheat : • More a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. Port. And lastly, may be produced the peculiar sense, in which a word is found in any great author:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 ページ
...shire; 365 If on ft pillory, or near a tbrone, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was hit: This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his jiride, but friend to his distress: So... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 ページ
...Japhet in a jail ; A hireling scribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the post corrupt, or of the shire If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wir, Sappho can tell you how this man was hit :... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 ページ
...a jail ; A hireling scribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the Post corrupt, or of the shire; 365 If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dups than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 ページ
...If on .' pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by^iature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit: This dreaded sat'rist Deunis will confess Foe- to his pride but friend to his distress: So humble, lie has knock'd... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 ページ
...in a jail; " A hireling scribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the post corrupt, or of the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit :... | |
 | 1809 - 402 ページ
...in a jail, A hireling scribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the post corrupt, or of the shire j If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's car, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 ページ
...of the shire; If on a pilloiv or near a throne. He gain his prince's ear, or lose bis own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride but friend to his distress: So humble, he has knock'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 ページ
...a jail, A hireling scribbler, or a hireling peer, Knight of the post corrupt, or of the shire ; 365 If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit :... | |
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If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit... 
