 Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; 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,...  Bell's Edition - Page 40by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...midlt of his engagements on the fame fubjeft, and by a creature of Mr. Addifon's, made Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Alike NOTES. made him fufpeft this to be another maft from the fame quiver : And after a diligent enquiry,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair fame inspires : Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair fame inspires: Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 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 beft of his little piecfcs : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires : Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :...near the throne ; View Him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...whose firei True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill.4* ' ยป And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throw." But this is net the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem ttf Fanshaw, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...each art to pleufr, 105 And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fonJ to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yrt with jealous eyes, And hatefor arts that caus'd himfclf to rife; zoo Damn with faint... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :...Bear, like the Turk,! no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. 5 This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient. lib. Hi. p. ISO. Etsi enim Aristoteles,... | |
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