 | 1809 - 562 páginas
...of the word a muck being of Indian derivation, and it is therefore a pity that lie did not cite it. Frontless, and satire-proof he scours the streets, And runs an INDIAN muck at all he meets. Tims Johnson has printed it, but it may be qucst-ionc'j whether Indian is intended as an adjective... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 páginas
...of the word a muck being of Indian derivation, and it is therefore a pity that he did not cite it. Frontless, and satire-proof he scours the streets, And runs an INDIAN muck at all he meets. Thus Johnson has printed it, but it may be questioned whether Indian is intended as an adjective to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 páginas
...Albuti, quibus est inimica, venenum ; NOTES. Ver. 70. To run a muck,] The expression is from Dryden : " Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." And it alludes to a practice among the Malayans, who are great gamesters ; which is, that when a man... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 316 páginas
...fast as possible. I think it is this which our sailors call " To run a muck." Thus Dryden writes— " Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope — " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet."... | |
 | John Badcock - 1823 - 222 páginas
...country whence the word is derived, when, speaking of some Blackwood of his time, he says, " Profitless and satire-proof he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets.'' Mud — a stupid twaddling fellow. ' And his name is mild !' ejaculated upon the conclusion of a silly... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 314 páginas
...which our sailors call " To run a muck." Thus Dryden writes — " Frontless, and satire-proof, lie scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope — " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...never have had a Locke or Newton." Warton. Ver. 70. To run a muck,] The expression is from Dryden : " Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." And it alludes to a practice among the Malayans, who are great gamesters ; Papist or Protestant, or... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 538 páginas
...as possible. I think it is this which our sailors call " To run a muck." Thus Dryden writes — *\ " Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." t Thus also Pope — " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet."... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...never have had a Locke or Newton." Warton. Ver. 70. To run a muck,'] The expression is from Dryden : " Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." And it alludes to a practice among the Malayans, who are great gamesters ; SAT. OF HORACE. 107 Papist... | |
 | John Brady - 1826 - 312 páginas
...as fast as possible. I think it is this our sailors call " to run a-muck.'' Thus Dryden writes : " Frontless, and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets." Thus also Pope : " Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet, To run am«ci, and tilt at all I meet."... | |
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He thrusts about and justles into fame. Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets. 
