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" Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. "
The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 43
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed.; Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed: In...there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 22 No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbor farther gone than he: Ev'n those...
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An analytical dictionary of the English language, Volume 1

David Booth - 1830 - 516 pages
...are pure abstractions : " But where th* extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the Nortfif at York, 'tis on the Tweed: In Scotland, at the Orcades...— At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." When a word which is only used as an adverb becomes an adjective by giving it the comparative degree,...
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The Works of Hannah More, Volume 6

Hannah More - English literature - 1830 - 530 pages
...there was a God. In fact, we may apply to enthusiasm what has been said on another occasion : — Ask where's the North — At York, 'tis on the Tweed;...Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla But, it may be asked, has religious enthusiasm, after all, no definite meaning ? or are religion and...
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The Works of Hannah More, Volume 6

Hannah More - Children - 1830 - 524 pages
...there was a God. In fact, we may apply to enthusiasm what has been said on another occasion : — Ask where's the North — At York, 'tis on the Tweed ;...Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla But, it may be asked, has religious enthusiasm, after all, no definite meaning? or are religion and...
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The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1898 - 120 pages
...where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed: Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; 4 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 5 No creature owns it in the first degree, 225 But thinks his neighbor further gone than he: Ev'n those...
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Essay on Man, Epistles I.-IV.

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
..."We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In...or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he : Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 33

Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1899 - 752 pages
...Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace (xvi. 378. 6). Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In...there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where (xvi. 378. 11). Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree ;...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 288

English periodicals - 1900 - 640 pages
...curious transmissions of heredity. As Pope says of the North : — Ask, Where's the North ? At York, "Us on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. Mr. Lang is well aware how the men of Homer's time had declined from their predecessors whose deeds...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 17

Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north? — at York 'tis on the Tweed;...or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbor further gone than he ; E'en those who dwell beneath its very...
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The Rape of the Lock: An Essay on Man and Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1901 - 120 pages
...embrace : But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north ? at York, 't is on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zambia, or the Lord knows where. 225 No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbor...
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