...280 Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to...man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace, Infults...

...28© Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to...man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace, Infults...

...280 Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but fmile, When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style? Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to...man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 285 Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace, Infults...

...vein of poetry, if made at th» expence of Truth or Innocence. Curft be the verfe, how well fo e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe...a fear, Or from the foft-ey'd virgin fteal a tear. (Sentiments, which no efforts of genius, without the concurrence of the heart, could have exprefled...

...of morality, on the principles or praftice of men in bufmefs. Curft be the verfe, how well £ie'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give Virtue fcandal, Innocence a fear, 28| Of from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmlefs neighbour's peace, Infults...

...execrate even his own beft vein of poetry, if made at the expence of Truth and Innocence. " Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, " That tends to...fear, " Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear." Sentiments, which no efforts of genius, without the concur-' rence of the heart, could have exprefled...

...againft him, fo remarkable for thok excellence «nd their cruelty, repeating this couplet ; " Curft be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow," That tends to make one worthy man my foe.** Pori. ' The ingenious critic infiftcd on his taking them agaifi ; " for, faid be, my afl<>elates »t...

...for every no perfon ought to be rallied any furpoet fhould be able to fay, with Mr. Pope, " CuiVd be the verfe, how well foe'er it flow, That tends to make one warthy man my foe; Give Virtue fciindal, innocence a fear, Or from the fott-ey'd virgin (leal a tear."...

...Taught me, what mare of earthly blifs to find, 165 " In a free mufe and independent mind, *« To * curfe the verfe how well foe'er it flow, * That tends to...fcandal, innocence a fear, ' Or from the foft-ey'd virgin draw a tear,' 170 " You taught me too, all culprits not to fpare, *• Taught me how much the jealous...

...would even execrate his beft vein of poetry, if made at the expence of truth and innocence, " Curft be the verfe,- how well foe'er it flow, " That tends...fear, *' Or from the foft-ey'd Virgin fteal a tear." Such a noble generality and amiable tendernefs of fentiment feems to have flowed warm from the heart,...