'Cato.' When John Dennis, a rather clumsy critic, attacked the play, Pope came to its defense with a reply written in a spirit of railing bitterness which sprang from injuries of his own.
Pope was born in 1688 (just a hundred years before Byron), the son of a Catholic linen-merchant in London.
I have, my Faustus; and, for proof thereof, This is the goodly palace of the
Pope; And, 'cause we are no common guests, I choose his privy-chamber for our use.
I fell in love with
Pope, whose life I read with an ardor of sympathy which I am afraid he hardly merited.
'Husband,' said she, 'I will be
pope this very day.' 'But,' replied the husband, 'the fish cannot make you
pope.' 'What nonsense!' said she; 'if he can make an emperor, he can make a
pope: go and try him.'
But now the people of England became very unwilling to pay so much money to the
Pope, especially as at this time he was a Frenchman ruling, not from Rome, but from Avignon.
Zarathustra however seized the hand of the old
pope and regarded it a long while with admiration.
Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the
Pope. Secondly, by winning to himself all the gentlemen of Rome, so as to be able to curb the
Pope with their aid, as has been observed.
The
pope had also need of money to bring matters to an end with Louis XII.
"Belly of the
pope! what sort of a grimace is that?"
I went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the
Pope's indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays.
"By the
Pope's hind leg, but thy amiable father loveth the English.
