 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...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? \Vho would not weep, if Atticus were he ! POPE.- [From the "Epistle to Dr. Artutlmot. '] Hilloto fet.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...little senate laws, And sit attentive to hia own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise; Who but must laugh, if such a man there bo ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were he! Some readers may think these lines severe, but the treatment... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881 - 972 pages
...senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'iy sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but...man there be ! Who would not weep if Atticus were he ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
 | Great Britain - 1881 - 970 pages
...senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'vy sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but...man there be ! Who would not weep if Atticus were he ! Pope did not immediately publish these lines, but sent them in manuscript to Addison, with the belief... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause: 8 ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I dr AWP; InPK; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What?... | |
 | David C. Greetham - History - 1997 - 392 pages
...What tho' my Name stood rubric on the walls? Or plaister'd posts, with Claps in capitals? Or smoaking forth, a hundred Hawkers load, On Wings of Winds came...abroad? I sought no homage from the race that write . . . John Butt explains, "Books were advertized by 'clapping' copies of titlepages to boards or posts... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...will trust." The famous Atticus portrait ends on an even more emphatic assertion of wide agreement: "Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? / Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?" Every satiric victim can be seen to unify the poet and all the rest of society: everyone else will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but...What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templers ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise. Who but...there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 36 Atticus is being satirized for a combination of power mania and cowardly indirectness as well as... | |
 | George Justice - History - 2002 - 302 pages
...of Literature. The portrait ends with a couplet built upon the antithesis of nostalgia and satire: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he! (11. 213-14) As the ensuing lines of the poem declare, and as the opening of the poem enacted, the... | |
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Dreading ev'n 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 raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise... 
