Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line 277
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
-- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line 277
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- The man that makes a character makes foes.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line... - and oftener changed their principles than their shirts.
- Dr.... - Accept a miracle instead of wit,--
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Edward Young (1684-1765) -- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i... - Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books,
and principles with times. -- Alexander Pope (1688... - As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns:
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills... - Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth,
and strengthens with his strength. -- Alexander Pope... - Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line...
