 | Ian Jack - 1984 - 214 pages
...Virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless, guilty men; Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car; Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Stm: Can there be wanting, to defend Her cause, Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws? One... | |
 | Dustin H. Griffin - 1994 - 260 pages
...Virtue when I point the Pen, Brand the bold Front of shameless, guilty Men, Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car, Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star.76 O sacred Weapon! left for Truth's defence, Sole Dread of Folly, Vice, and Insolence! . . .... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pages
...Virtue when I point the Pen, Brand the bold Front of shameless, guilty Men, 203 Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car, Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star; (105-108) Could Laureate Dryden Pimp and Fry'r engage, Yet neither Charles nor James be in a Rage?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless, guilty men; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car; Bare the mean heart that lurks...beneath a star, Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the church, or guardians of the laws? 110 Could pensioned Boileau lash in honest strain... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...Virtue when I point the Pen, Brand the bold Front of shameless, guilty Men, Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car, Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star; (11. 105-8) There is little in Horace to account for these lines: Quid? cum est Lucilius ausus Primus... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
...Virtue when I point the Pen, / Brand the bold Front of shameless, guilty Men, / Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car, / Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star" (105-8). But even then he tends to define his virtue by his essential separation from certain identifying... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...guilty men, Dafh the proud gamefter from his gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a flar; Can there be wanting, to defend her caufe, Lights of the church or guardians of the laws f ? "Tbatftraln J 1 beard was of a higher mood — , than the original pretends to affume. Our author's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...Testers, now, to take your life ! Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men; Dash the proud Gamester in his gilded Car; Bare the mean Heart that lurks...beneath a Star ; Can there be wanting, to defend Her cause, Lights of the Church, or Guardians of the Laws? no Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain... | |
 | 1733 - 740 pages
...And I not drip the Gilding off a Knave, Unplac'd, unpenfton'd, no man't Heir, or Slave > t— Daft» the proud Gamefter in his gilded Car ? Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Scar ? 1 will, or perifli in the Gen'rous Cauff. Hear this, and tremble.you who Tcape iheLaws. To VIRTUE... | |
 | 1868 - 588 pages
...thousand lights attend. The wretch who living saved a candle's end ;" " Drag the proud gamester from his gilded car, Bare the -mean heart that lurks beneath a star." are the very poetry of satire ; and how many of them might we not quote ? The cultivated heroic satire... | |
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What? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the Church, or... 
