Hide their diminished heads.—Milton.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.—Pope: Essay on Man.
And justify the ways of God to man.—Milton: Paradise Lost.
On Butler who can think without just rage,
The glory and the scandal of the age?—Oldham: Satire against Poetry.
Probably borrowed by Pope in the following lines:—
At length Erasmus, that great injured name,