 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
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learncd ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly...here, Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature'i temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died. The first... | |
 | Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...8' au irpoefShefya; O.VTOL w a/iiporepoif artvotXTO; icov xctt Of Compare Pope's Epitaph on Fenton : Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. air nit." Is this a genuine anecdote, or a copy of similar storiea in ancient writers ? Ib. p. 234.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 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 m the vale of peace. fc'almly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...honest man : A Poet, West beyond the Poet's fate. Whom Heaven kept facred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in tile vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...of your mind is most exactly described in a line of Pope's, corrected and improved by Thomson : -A friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. And since your amhition hath chosen the better vol.. iv. w part, it is the duty of all that value you,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1813 - 696 pages
...honest maii, A Fuel, blessed beyond a poet's fate. Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great. Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heaven, that he had lived, and that he dy'd." The first publication by Mr. Fenton, which made its appearance in the year... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 936 pages
...honest man, A Poet, blessed beyond a poet's fate, Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great* Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either lite, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear, From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1815 - 740 pages
...to him eternal bli>s in the kingdom of Heaven. — The following lines of Pope df pict the man i " Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease. Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he louk'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...honest man :" A poet, bless'd beyond a poet's fate, Whom Heaven 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' rate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he died. On Mr. Gay. POPE.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Langhorne's Poems, p. ii. p. 123. Park's ed. Ver. 75. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life] . " Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science, in the vale of peace." Pope's Ep. to Fenton, 6. W. £ And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... | |
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