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" NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.' Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech. "
The British poets, including translations - Page 30
by British poets - 1822
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 358 pages
...beatum." — HOE. lib. i. epist. vL] (2) [The " Murray " of Pope was the great Earl Mansfield.] (3) [" Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy,...speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.")] (4) F' I maintained that Horace was wrong in placing happiness in nil admirari, for that I thought...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...fit of vapours clouds this demigod. THE SIXTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. TO MR. MURRAY.1 ' NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men...dear Murray ! needs no flowers of speech, So take 1t in the very words of Creech.) This vault of air, this congregated ball, Self-center'd sun, and stars...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...tOtr fear, had aey share, so he supported his Utto to it hj all ths offices of true friendship. • NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men...words of Creech.) This vault of air, this congregated hall, Self-centred sun, and stars that rise and fall, There are, my friend ! whose philosophic eyes...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His ..., Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 pages
...beatum."« HOE. lib. i. epist. vi.] . (2) [The " Murray " of Pope was the great Earl Mansfield.] (3) [™ Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy,...flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.")3 (4) ['< i maintained that Horace was wrong in placing happiness in nil atlmirari, for that...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...party, no fear, had any share, >o he supported hi« title to it bj all the offices of true friendship. ' he storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling...While Cato gives his little senate laws, What hosom h flowera of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.) This vault of air, this congregated ball,...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic: Containing Original Papers ..., Volume 10

1837 - 348 pages
...the days of Augustus to those of William IV. have described as the consummation of human enjoyment ; Not to admire is all the art I know ; To make men happy, and to keep them so. Such readers have condemned the episode of Sir Reginald Glanville as an impertinence, and, sooth to...
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Court Magazine, and Monthly Critic, Volume 10

English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...those of William IV. have described as the consummation of human enjoyment ; Kot to admire is all tl;e art I know ¡ To make men happy, and to keep them so. Such readers have condemned the episode of Sir Reginald Glanville as an impertinence, and, sooth to...
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Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ...

Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...far as mankind are concerned : of the same complexion is the passage in Horace, Nil admirari, &c. — Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. — which means, that the only way to be happy in this life, is to be insensible to every thing that...
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Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ...

Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...as mankind are concerned : of the §ame complexion is the passage in Horace, Nil admirari, &c. — Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. — which means, that the only way to be happy in this life, is to be insensible to every thing that...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...vapours clouds this dcmi-god. THE SIXTH EPISTLE OP THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. то ira. MTTKRAY. " Nor to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy,...so." (Plain truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flowers of So take it in the very words of Creech1.) [speech, Tliis vault of air, this congregated ball, Self-centred...
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