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The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… cause, Gave up our liberties, and sold our laws; When Pow'r was taught by Meanness where to go, Nor dar'd to love the Virtue of a foe; When, like a lep'rous plague, from the foul head To the foul heart her sores Corruption spread, Her iron arm when stern Oppression rear'd, And Virtue, from her broad base shaken, fear'd The scourge of Vice; when, impotent and vain, Poor Freedom bow'd the neck to …
Poetry
Anthology
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… Plums and Directors, Shylock and his Wife, [105] Will club their testers, now, to take your life! P. 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, … who 'scape the laws. [120] Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk in peace, and credit, to his grave. To Virtue only and her friends a friend, The World beside may murmur, or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can … may then proceed; In such a cause the Plaintiff will be hiss'd, My Lords the Judges laugh, and you're dismiss'd. … "To Virtue only and her friends a friend, The World beside may murmur, or commend." … Friendship … Poetry … Law … Politics … …
Friendship | Poetry | Law | Politics
Anthology
Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… by the Whig prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. When he describes himself in one of his imitations of Horace as ‘ To virtue only and her friends , a friend ’, not only does Pope demonstrate the self-serving nature of his sociable ethos, … Indeed, it would be a mistake to identify either Pope or his many foes as being consistent defenders of sociable virtue. Notwithstanding his cultivation of an idealistically sociable identity, Pope was perfectly capable of playing the … Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (Paderborn: Fink, 2008), p. 131-148. As it transpires, such equivocation about the virtues of Pope’s poetry will be no guarantee of Marianne’s romantic fulfilment. Nonetheless, the business of admiring …
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… manuscript in Thelwall’s hand has confirmed that Thelwall continued to be interested in politics, print and ‘the social virtues’ until his death. As Jon Mee has argued, throughout his career Thelwall did not ‘simply act in the name of ‘the …
Debate | Eloquence | French Revolution | Poetry | Public sphere
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