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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...

English exercises, adapted to the grammar lately published by L. Murray ... - Page 44
by Lindley Murray - 1823
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Pope and Human Nature

Geoffrey Tillotson - Human beings in literature - 1958 - 296 pages

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Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--and After

Dwight Macdonald - American literature - 1960 - 612 pages

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Scrap Irony

Felicia Lamport - Poetry - 1961 - 136 pages

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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

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...

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