 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...: and what deserved praise he would not deny him to the world ; and, as a proof of this disposition Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: rest, I go. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - Authors, English - 1824 - 686 pages
...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen, friends and neighbours ; let us hear what he... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bon-lei. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mcr (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, NOTES. mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...with eaeh talent and eaeh art to please, And bom to write, eonverse, and live with east: Should sueh om this, by merited seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd himself to rise ; Daum with faint praise,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; For every authour would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And Ixirn to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother neur the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself... | |
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