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" Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose... "
The Ordeal - Page 319
1809
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...hurtful than a flatterer : for, fays he, in a pleafant fimile, alluding to his friend's profeflion. " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, '*' It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite." He then proceeds to ridicule the abject and extravagant flattery of thofe fycophants, who complimented...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...too could write, and 1 am twice as tall; But foes like these— P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It Is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite iunocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates...
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The Ordeal: A Critical Journal of Politicks and Literature, Volume 1

Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...ground of fair controversy, whenever he can descend from grovelling in the mire. * Of all mad creature), if the learn'd are right, ' It is the slaver kills,...to shew how far it was palpably deficient in that respect. The Ordeal asserted and proved that Great-Britain had some merit in coming to a settlement...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...too could write, and I am twice ae tall; But foes like these — P. One flatt'rcr's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite an^ry is quite innocent : Ala ', 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these.— P. One flatterer's worse than all, Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. This prints my...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But fbes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is ;uito innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten tinrvs worse when they repent One dedicates...
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Hypercriticism exposed; in a letter addressed to the readers of 'The ...

Stephen Jones - 1812 - 50 pages
...two preceding Notes exhibit specimens o£ hypercriticism which, perhaps, can scarcely be outdone. " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, " It is the sla-ver kills, and not the bite." (XXXI.) For this scrap of information Mr. Jones i» thankful. '.' The toad, ugly and yenomoui, " Wears...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; [all. But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall; [all. But foes like these—P. One flatterer's worse than. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...hurtful than a flatterer. For, says he, (in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's profession), " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite." And how abject and excessive the flattery of these creatures was, he shews, by observing that they...
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