 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 672 pages
...of Pope's Imitation of Horace, bk. i. ep. vi., are really a misquotation : — " ' Not to admire, ia all the Art I know To make men happy, and to keep them so (Plain Truth, dear Murray, needa no flow'rs of ipeech So take it in the very words of Creech)." The original passage is : —... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1850 - 156 pages
...Canto 1, st. 2. And I must say, I ne'er could see the very Gi eat happiness of the " nil admirari." Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, or to keep them so : Thus Horace wrote. — And thus Pope quotes the precept; but had none admired,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...One » bo be! erei as Tindal leads the way. all I!K oSicei of true friendship. ' Nor to admire, • all the art I know. To make men happy, and to keep them to.' Plain troth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech. So Uke it in the rerjr word* of Creech.)... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott - 1851 - 1084 pages
...kind. The passion of love never interrupted his tranquillity; and if, as Mr Creech says after Horace, Not to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. Mr Pickle was undoubtedly possessed of that invaluable secret ; at least he was never known to betray... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...Nil admirari prope res eat Una, Nutnici, Sola qua possit facere et servare beatum. Horace, Epist. vi. Not to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. equal struggle, are poshed back upon themselves, and, by a reversal of their whole functions, fester... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...(what's mighty odd) A fit of vapours clouds this demy-god? SATIRES AND EPISTLES. IV. To Mr. Murray. OT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy,...keep them so.' Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flow'rs of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech. This vault of air, this congregated ball,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 pages
...(what's mighty odd) A fit of vapours clouds this demy-god? SATIRES AND EPISTLES. IV. To Mr. Murray. QT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy,...keep them so.' Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flow'rs of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech. This vault of air, this congregated ball,... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - Authors, Irish - 1881 - 564 pages
...beatum." HoR., Lib. L Epht. VI. « « NOT TO ADMIRE is all the art I knmv To mahe men happy, and to heep them so ' — Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers...speech : So take it in the very words of CREECH." POPE'S Epistle to Lord Mansfield. " But, had none admired, Would POPE have sung, or HORACE been inspired?...... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...Horace, and parts of several other poets. Pope quotes two lines of his translation of Horace — " Nought to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy...of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech." P.' 123. ffalyn, John, bora in 1620, was one of the most accomplished and virtuous men of 'bis day.... | |
 | Francis Mahony - Ballads, French - 1889 - 686 pages
...prope res est una Numici Solaque quo; possit facere et servare beatum." HOE., Lib. I., Epist. VI. " ' NOT TO ADMIRE is all the art I know To make men happy,...speech : So take it in the very words of CREECH." POPE'S Epistle to Lord Mansfield. " But, had none admired, Would POPE have sung, or HORACE been inspired... | |
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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. 
