 Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 141by Alexander Pope - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 pages
...facred from the proud and great Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, e Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, q Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. F 3 XL On i»»... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, 5 Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly...look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, cr there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, 9 XI. Oil Mr. Gay, in H'ettmlnster-... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...Beleeve me, reader, can fay more, Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a truly boneji man. Ver. 7. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. The fame fentiment is found in Alartiafs Epigrams, x. 23. Prseteritosque dies, et totos refpicit annos... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 712 pages
...facred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had lived, and that he dy'd. Affecting Story of a Young... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 604 pages
...facred from the Proud an4 Great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...regret, or there to fear ; . . From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had lived, and that he dy'd. Jiffe&ing Story of a Young... | |
 | William Jackson - Aesthetics, British - 1798 - 472 pages
...facred from the proud and great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...regret, or there to fear ; ' From nature's temperate feaft rofe Cuisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd and that he dy'd. POPE. (Johnfon.} " The firfl... | |
 | William Jackson - Aesthetics, British - 1798 - 472 pages
...great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. t Calmly he look'd on either life; and here Saw nothing...regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd Keav'n that he had liv'd and that he dy'd. POPE. (Johnfon.} " The firft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Ca!u, ly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...honest man : A poet blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thaiik'd heav'n that he had lived, and that he died. The first couplet of this Epitaph is borrowed.... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 362 pages
...honest man : A poet bless'd beyond the poet's fate, W hom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'raie feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that be had liv'd, and that he dy'd TO TIIK KIOHT HON.... | |
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