...the a being detached from muck as if it were the indefinite article. Of. Pope, Satires, j. 69, 70 : Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. " The original reading of the text, as late as 1874, was " a Malayan muck " ; cf. Dry den, The Hind...

...in an honest Mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; 70 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors. Save but our...

...in an honest Mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; fo I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors, Save but our...

...in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our army...

...well, should be able to repeat it. Pope, in his Imitations of Horace (U. sat. 1. 1. 69), says:— " o our nature, old, poor, sightless and disgraced, he retire tut at all I meet." THE POET. Nor if any one should be able, as we are. to scribble verses closely...

...cures because the remedy is loved. LORD MULGRAYE. Pointed satire runs him through and through. OLDHAM. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. POPE. Satire is no more : I feel it die : No gazetteer more innocent than I. POPE. But touch me, and...

...ALEXANDER POPE bezigde in een zijner verzen een beeldspraak, ontleend aan de figuur van den amokspeler: Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck and tilt at all I meet JAN DE MARRE gaf er in zijn heldendicht Batavia deze uitlegging van, dat bv de mishandelde slaaf, die...

...weapon wear away with lack of use is rendered in Pope as an ironic critique of a threatening society: Satire's my Weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a Land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors. Save but our Army!...

...protected from dangerous robbers?] Pope's version sounds on the surface even more cheerful and innocuous: Satire's my Weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a Land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors. [69-72] The unexpected...

...poem Pope in fact represents himself, by clear implication, as Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior: Satire's my Weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a Muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a Land of Hectors, Thieves, Supercargoes, Sharpers, and Directors. (69-72) Pope wears...