The Rape of the Lock: An Essay On Man And Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Rape of the Lock: An Essay On Man And Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Alexander Pope , Henry Walcott Boynton
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Hold ! for God's sake — you Til offend. No names ! — be calm ! — learn prudence of a friend \ I too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these — P. One flatt'rer 's worse than 'all. 105 Of all mad creatures, if the learn 'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 't is ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, no And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grubstreet will my fame defend,... And more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my Letters^ that expects a bribe. And others roar aloud, " Subscribe, subscribe I '• ii5 There are, who to my person pay their court : I cough like Horace, and, tlio' lean, am short ; 100. Ambrose Philips was a protdgd of Addison's and a writer of sugary pastorals, which gained him the nickname of Namby-pamby Philips. A Bishop Boulter became his patron. 101. Sappho is the name which Pope applies to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. In 369, below, be alludes plainly to his early attachment to her.
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