 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 oldal
...oblig'd ; Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but likes the worst the best; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits...attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars ev'ry sentence raise, " And wonder with a foolish face of praise— What pity, Heaven ! if such a man... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 oldal
...oblig'd ; Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but likes the worst the best ; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits...attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — What pity, Heaven ! if such a man... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 oldal
...afterward altered to " Addison ;" a circumstance not noticed by the learned commentators upon Pope. N. Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits...attentive to his own applause ; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, ^ nd wonder with a foolish face of praise — What pity, Heaven ! if such a man... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 oldal
...ohlig'd ; Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, hut likes the worst the hest ; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits attentive to his own applause ; * Author of the Victun, and Cooler of Prestoo. H. f Verse of Dr. Ev. H. \ Thus it originally stood... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 oldal
...oblig'd; Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but likes the worst the best) Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits...attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise, What pity, Heaven ! if such a man there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 oldal
...oblig'd; Who, if two wits on rival themes contest, Approves of each, but likes the worst the best; Like Cato, gives his little senate laws, And sits...attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise, What pity, Heaven! if such a man there... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 oldal
...bcsieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit and my dearest friend ; Snee Heaven appoints this...favour'd race to reign, And blood has drench'd the Sc fbce of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 oldal
...dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 oldal
...refused." Why should he be jealous and splenetic only when Pope was 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 oldal
...refused." Why should he be jealous and splenetic only when Pope was 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... | |
| |
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 he? 
