 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs 255 Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; And more true...exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. ~^In Parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise? 260 'Tis but to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs 255 Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true...exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. In Parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise ? 260 237 ff. 6. FAME... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...The most daring innovators are most often those most thoroughly steeped in tradition. HENRY PARRIS One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid...starers, and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. ALEXANDER POPE I am their leader; I have to follow... | |
 | Ian Jack - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 214 pages
...yet who was still (and justly) suspected of Jacobitism - a poem containing such lines as iv. 257-8: And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels66 47 and iv. 265-6: Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and... | |
 | Ignatius Sancho - History - 1998 - 388 pages
...on Man (London, 1733-1734), 4:255-256, slightly misquoted here and again in letter LXXIV (vol. II): "One self-approving Hour whole years out-weighs / Of stupid Starers, and of loud huzza's." 9 Your brother and sister C d: Jack Wingrave's sister is almost certainly the Elizabeth Wingrave... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...high to poison half Mankind. All Fame is foreign but of true Desert, Plays round the Head, but comes not to the Heart. One Self-approving Hour whole Years outweighs Of stupid Starers, and of loud Huzza's. Vanity backbites more than Malice. He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom. Great spenders... | |
 | Ivory Frisbee - 2004 - 349 pages
...the request of the Senate. Pope, in his Essay on Man, epistle iv., has a couplet referring to him : " And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels." There were some other Romans of the same name, of minor repute. Marius, C. A celebrated Roman who signalized... | |
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When what t' oblivion better were resign'd Is hung on high, to poison half mankind, All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud... 
