...fashionable beauties at places like Bath: See how the world its veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an Old Age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to...Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, hut their Prize a Sot; Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot. ["To a Lady," 243-48] The succession of...

...God or Devil." And for the elegant brutality of realistic assessment, the couplet is unsurpassed: See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolicks,...without a Friend, A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot, Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot! The preceding passage, taken from Pope's Epistle to a Lady...

...haunt the places where their Honour died, See how the World its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to...without a friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot, Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot! Ah friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought...

...haunt the places where their Honor died. See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to...without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot! The immediacy and precision and particularity, the live touch...

...haunt the places where their honour died. See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to...without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot! Ah! friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought,...

...are some lines from Alexander Pope's poem 'Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women': 2.43 See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of frolicks, an old Age of Cards, 245 Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend, A Fop their Passion,...

...Place; for the Vanity 1 Pope, "An Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women" (1735) 11. 243-4: See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolicks, an old Age of Cards. oí these Ladies is so voracious, that notwithstanding the ljarty is Kill, they are so eager to raise...

...See how the world its veterans rewards, A youth of frolics, an old age of cards ; Fair to no purpofe, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend ; A fop their paflion, but their prize a fot, Alive, ridiculous j and dead, forgot f. THE antithefis, fo remarkably...

...are used (vol. 2, ch. 4; vol. 2, ch. 6). 9 the world: fashionable society and its activities: 'See how the World its Veterans rewards! / A Youth of Frolicks, an old Age of Cards' (Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle 2: 'To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women', lines 243—4)....

...haunt the places where their Honour died. See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to...without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot!16 It is possible for comedy on a very high plane, the plane...