While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all. Tis true, on words is still our whole debate, Disputes of me or te, of aut or at, To sound or sink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Side 291af Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 sider
...'Tis true on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 120 To found or fink in cano, O or A? Or give up Cicero to C or K. NOTES. ind Simonides, who invented Jmgle letters. But Ariftarchus, who had found out a double one,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 sider
...Roman and Greek Grammarians, &c.~\ Imitated from Propertiu-; fpeaking of the ^Lneid. To found or fink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 248 sider
...true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 220 To found or fink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 246 sider
...on Words is ftill our whole debate, Dilputes of Me or Te, of out or at, 2M To found or fink in cant, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny may deny,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 368 sider
...Joaarum be<kr* premia frmtium, or, Te daBartm better* By this the IMITATI OKI. To found or fink in cant/, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affedt to fpeak as Terence fpoke. And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 sider
...Tis true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at, To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Friend affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : IMITATIONS. Ver. 207.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 340 sider
...of Homer. He calls it ibmething more than Letter, from the enormous figure it would To fonn J or fmk in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affect to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke i For me, what Virgil, Pliny may deny,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 sider
...Homer. He calls it fomething more than Letter, from the enormous figure it would make To fo1.nl or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 sider
...'Tis true, on Words is ftill our whole debate, Difputes of Me or Te, of out or at.; . To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. • IBID, p, 206. THE COURTIER. IN flow'd at once a gay embroider'd race, And, titt'ring, pufh'd the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 sider
...^Eneid, " Cedite, Rrniani fcriptorss, cedite Graii ! " Nefdo quid majus nafckur Iliada." To found or fink in cano O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K. Let Freind affeft to fpeak as Terence -fpoke, And Alfop never but like Horace joke : For me, what Virgil, Pliny... | |
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