 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
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...man ; " A peel, bless'd beyond the poef 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 UVd, and that he died. U8.— 0 'i General... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...Foe to loud praise, and friend to letraad-eMe, Content with science in the vale of peace. « ,'ulnily he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From* nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Tbank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. Rumour. THE COUNTRY... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 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...temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heaven that he liv'd, and that he died. The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw. The four next... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud p_raise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. J Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 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...temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he lived, and that he died. The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw. The four next... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 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...there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he liv'd, and that he dy'd. The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 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...there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfyd, Thank'd Heaven that he liv'd, and that he dy'd. The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...honest man;" Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great: A poet, bless'd beyond a. poet's fate, 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. POPE, 1730. ON... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...HONEST MAN1 :" A Poet bless'd beyond the 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 dy'd. FRANCIS FAWKES.... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...HONEST MAN :" A Poet bless'd beyond the 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 dy'd. FRANCIS FAWKES.... | |
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