 Blest 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 him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts...  Elegant Extracts - Page 252edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 10. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that.caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering,... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...copious and expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, H and — a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...attract attention. ** Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like a Turk, no brother near his throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous...|| and — yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, I) and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, || and — a... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 454 pages
...written. ' From Lord Egmont's MS. Collections.— Sec the Addenda to Kippis's Riographia Britannica. Damn with faint praise ; assent with civil leer ;...to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, etc. Accusations crowded faster than the pen could write them down. Pope never composed with more warmth.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, vision, from his lather's reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1841 - 416 pages
...copious and expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...|| and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, jj and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A lim'rous foe, || by flatterers... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, ? tench the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Sear, like the Turk, no brother near the ihrone, lo sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid lo strike. Just hint a fault, and hesilate dislike ; Alike... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1845 - 444 pages
...language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope : " Should such a man, too fond to rale alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
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