...Mary's acquaintance was, 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...

...Gentleman's Magazine, 1791, p. 420. to which the Editor is indebted. § Epistle to Arbuthnot, 1, 368. " Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how thia man was bit."* is most fairly proved. For if he were outwitted by a female wit, and by Sappho,...

...corrupt, or of the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. ack the fair. Thus song could prevail O'er death,...hell, A conquest how hard and how glorious ! Though 3 slander'd, did he once reply ! Three thousand suns went down on Welstefs lie '. To please his mistress,...

...corrupt, or of the shire ; 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, he has knock'd...

...soft by nature, more a dupe than wH, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded sat'rist Mj rhyro'd for Moor Full ten years slander'd, did he once reply Ï Three thousand suns went down on Welsted'i...

...soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit: This dreaded sat'rist thou seest ; now learn too late How few sometimes...grand foe, with scornful eye askance, Thus answer rhym'd for Moor Full ten years slander'd.did he once reply ? Three thousand suns went down on Welsted's...

...corrupt, or of the shire ; If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. sat'risl Dennis will confess Foe to his pride but friend to liis distress: So humble, he has knock'd...

...the Epistle to 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...

...Epistle to 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...

...by the consciousness 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,...