 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...  Wit and Humor - Page 216by Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Biography - 1761 - 544 pages
...with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe: Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with fcornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts, that caused himfelf to rife j Damn with faint praife,... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe ; Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife j Damn with faint praife,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 338 pages
...art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe: •;-.• ,-/ „' ; -1 Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk^ no brother near the throne ; . View him with fcornful,yetwith fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife; Damn with faint praife,aflent... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...eftch talent and each art to pleafe, " And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, " View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, ' " And hate for arts, thatcaus'd... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...efcch talent and each art to pleafe, " And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : " Should fuch a man, too fond to .rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, " View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, " And hate for arts, that caus'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes,. And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; too Damn with faint... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...they had their will; " For every author would his brother .il IijJl," « And And Pope, ". Should fuch a man, too fond to rule " alone, ••" Bear like the Turk no brother near " the throne." But this is not the beft of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...fultans, if they had their will; " For every author would his brother « kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule *' alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near " the throne." But this is not the bcft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...fultans, if they had their will ; " For. every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the " throne." f But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk*, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd hrmfelf to rife j Damn with faint praife,... | |
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