...of his wasted attachment. He makes this confession with extreme bitterness,— Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and significant,...

...therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted...

...of his wasted attachment. He makes this confession with extreme bitterness, — Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was hit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and...

...therefore, that she had outwitted him, and the truth by the corrected lines, " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit,"t is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho, and yet outwitted...

...; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, ong could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how ha : This dreaded satirist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble,...

...; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Dennis will confess Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress : So humble,...

...; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, us aught should ascend to Heaven So prevalent as to concern the : This dreaded sat'risl Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to liis distress: So humble,...

...— thus giving a pointed meaning to an otherwise unintelligible couplet, — " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit." There is extant, moreover, a copy of verses addressed by Pope to Gay, — occasioned, it seems, by...

...Arbuthnot, thus giving a pointed meaning to an otherwise unintelligible couplet,— " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit." There is extant, moreover, a copy of verses addressed by Pope to Gay,—occasioned, it seems, by the...

...of his wasted attachment. He makes this confession with extreme bitterness,— Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. Prologue to the Satires. The lines as they stand in a first edition are even more pointed and significant,...