...bodies put to the test of physick, as 8 Boswell quotes from memory Sat., I. 119-120: Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Pope is "in his best frame" in the Universal Prayer, 37-38. The allusion is made again in Hyp. 29....

...put to the test of physick, as 9 Boswell quotes from memory Sat., I. 119—120: Yet, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to hit grave. Pope is "in his besT: frame" in the Universal Prayer, 37-38. The allusion is made again...

...a call to denounce vice, corruption, hypocrisy and incompetence in high places : Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Few prominent men or women of the day escaped his lash. His pen was dipped in vitriol. This from his...

...proud Gamester in his gilded Car, Bare the mean Heart that lurks beneath a Star. . . Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.2 Pope, like Swift, is thinking more especially of those whom the law has failed to restrain,...

...a Call to denounce vice, corruption, hypocrisy and incompetence in high places : Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. Few prominent men or women of the day escaped his lash. His pen was dipped in vitriol. This from his...

...perish in the gen'rous Cause. Hear this, and tremble! You, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. To VIRTUE ONLY and HER FRIENDS, A FRIEND, The World beside may murmur, or commend. (Imitations of Horace:...

...for the laws are now in abeyance: Hear this and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. (118-20) Influenced by Swift and tho long Hllfi flf WfllpOlQ, POP6'S POlltlcal disaffection and pessimism...

...all I meet; (1. 69-70) 90 P - xed by her love, or libeled by her hate. (I. 84) 91 Yes, while I live, B ! d9A . To Virtue only and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend. (1. 119-122) 92...

...chivalry and romance, as well as of the literature of Augustan Rome. When Pope writes, "Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave/ Shall walk the World, in credit to his grave," he presumes on the reader's agreement as to how the rich and the noble should behave; if they fail...

...writers of diverse political persuasion, giving point to Pope's threat in 1733: Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. (Satire II, i, 1 19-20) And it is to the pre-revolutionary world since displaced by credit and its...