 | 1796 - 500 pagine
...an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. 1 Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 3 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Ille velut... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pagine
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pagine
...run a muck." Thus Dryden writes — " Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets. And run* an Indian Muck at all he meets," Thus also Pope— " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet." Johnson could not discover the derivation of the word Muck. To " run... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pagine
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory, Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; YO I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagine
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pagine
...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at aH I meet ; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagine
...in an honest mean, hi moderation placing all my glorv, While Tories call me W hig, and Whigs a Tory. ah ! tis heard no more — O lyre divine ! what daring spirit Wakes thee now ? ; I only wear it it* a land of hectors, Thieves, su|>ercarg»es, sharpers, a/id irirccton. Save but... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pagine
...a muck being of Indian derivation, and it is therefore a pity that lie did not cite it. Frontless, and satire-proof he scours the streets, And runs an INDIAN muck at all he meets. Tims Johnson has printed it, but it may be qucst-ionc'j whether Indian is intended as an adjective... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagine
...an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, anil Whigs a Tory. * Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; Cum res ipsa feret : ' nisi dextro tempore, Flacci Verba per attentam non ihunt Caesaris aurcm :... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pagine
...an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. ' Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all 1 meet ; Cum re» ipsa feret : ' nisi dextro temporc, Flacci Verba per attentam non ibunt Caesaris... | |
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. 
