...office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Hamlet, iii. 1. 23 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Epiat. to Sat. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless...

...office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Hamlet, iii. 1. 22 Let hnmble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Eptst. to Sat. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless...

...distressed, whose virtues are immortalised in the well-known couplet of Pope : — " Let humble ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." l As a mark of gratitude to these friends, and of homage to their virtues, Fielding professed to embody...

...will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff3 in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,4...and to me ; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She 's still the same beloved, contented thing. no Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops...

...fortune by ' farming the cross posts,' and whom Pope celebrated in a famous couplet : Let Humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. He was, indeed, a person of the most benevolent disposition, who delighted in the society of literary...

...A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Llandaffin doctrine, — yea in life: Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush...and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She 's still the same, beloved, contented thing. Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops...

...Social Milieu of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), 8, 15-41. Let humble Allen, with an awkward Shame Do Good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame are in "Epilogue to the Satires," The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited by Henry W....

...lowest rank of the people till it was restrained by an act of Parliament in 1736. Let humble ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush...monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same, beloved, contented thing. 140 Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the...

...education. 2 From Pope, Epilogue to the Satires (London, 1738), 1:135-136, misquoted: "Let humble ALLEN, with an awkward Shame, / Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame." LETTER XXXIX 1 On The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser see vol. I letter LVIII, note 2. 2 Pharmacopolist:...

...between these usually very different concepts (see Unit 9, Rhyme and sound patterning): Let humble ALLEN, with an awkward Shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. This function of parallelism suggests that the conventional distinction between form and content is...