 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...whose character for worth and benevolence he had drawn in Allworthy, in ' Tom Jones.' Let humble Allen, . ض . Pope. The English factory at Lisbon erected a monument over his remains. The irregularities of Fielding's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1844 - 414 pages
...niece of the celebrated Ralph Allen, of Prior Park, near Bath, the friend of Pope : Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. An anecdote, worth recording, is related in connexion with Warburton's marriage with this lady. Pope... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...whose character for worth and benevolence he had drawn in Allworthy, in ' Tom Jones.' bet humble Allen, $ Pope. The English factory at Lisbon erected a monument over his remains. The irregularities of Fielding's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...invective in all Pope is the prophetical conclusion of the epilogue to the Satires: " Virtue may chuse the high or low degree, Tis just alike to virtue,...a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same brlov'd, contented thing. Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the dregs... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...distressed, whose virtues are immortalised in the well-known couplet of Pope : — " Lct honest ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." As a mark of gratitude to these friends, and of homage to their virtues, Fielding professed to embody... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...I have made free with, for examples either of good or bad, determine me to alterations. I 1 Buyer. Virtue may choose the high or low degree, Tis just...monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same, beloved, contented thing. 140 Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...make a man respectable, useful, or happy. ; 22* XLI. THE WORKING-MAN'S GOOD WORKS. " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." POPE. IT is an unwilling tribute to moral principle, that even the most hardened of our race dislike... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pages
...respectability, a circumstance alluded to by Pope in the Epilogue to his Satires : Let humble Allen with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope had originally styled him low-born Allen, but afterwards altered it as it now stands, not on the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...simple quaker, or a quaker's wife k, Outdo Llandaff ' in doctrine, — yea in life : Let humble AILEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush...and to me ; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She 's still the same, beloved, contented thing. Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...office, aud the spurns That putieut merit of the unworthy takes." Hamlet, iii. 1. t " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.'i Pope. Enis. to Sat. " Grand reservoirs of public happiness, Through secret streams diffusively... | |
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Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the dregs of earth: But 'tis the fall degrades her to a whore; Let... 
