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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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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...exeept (what's mighty odd) A tit of vapours elouds this demi-god ! BOOK I. EPISTLE VI. TO MR. MURRAY. " ; speeeh, So take it in the very words of Creeeh.) This vault of air, this eongregated ball. Self-eentred...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...party, nor fear, had any share, so he supported his title to it by all the offices of true friendship ' ions, or their glorious erida, Teach me, like the happv, and to keep them so' (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the...
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Facetiae and Miscellanies

William Hone - Great Britain - 1827 - 412 pages
...HILL 1824 Sixpence. Sftafcipeore. >-A *£'&/JF FOR ^$v£<' J3. ' '-i -'•'' THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. • Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it.' POPE. A YOUNG hand at iniquity, detected in his tricks, applied to an old practitioner for advice:...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...it by all the offices of true friendship. 'Nor to admire, is all the art I know, To make men hap|>y, and to keep them so.' (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs...Creech). This vault of air, this congregated ball, Self centred sun, and stars that rise and fall, There are, my friend ! whose philosophic eyes Look...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ...

Asia - 1830 - 616 pages
...goodly phrase does Sir F. M'Naghten, himself • judge, rail against the decision of a brother judge. Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech; So take it in the very words of Creech. It is certain that, if the opinions of Sir Francis are truths, he docs not propound them with much...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...nor fear, had any share, so he supported hiğ title to it by all the offices of true friendship. ' so.1 (Plain truth, dear Murray, net-da no ilowers of speech. So take it in the very words of Creech.)...
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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are Included Memoirs ..., Volume 1

Tobias Smollett - Medicine in literature - 1831 - 444 pages
...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...
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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 - 1833 - 364 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) [" I maintained that Horace was wrong in placing happiness in nil admirari, for that I thought...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...beatum." — Hon. 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,...speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.")] (4) [" I maintained that Horace was wrong in placing happiness in nil admirari, for that I thought...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...man, to his country. He died in 1793. THE SIXTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. TO MR. MURRAY. ' NOT to admire, is all the art I know ; To make men...Creech. This vault of air, this congregated ball, 5 Self-centred sun, and stars that rise and fall, There are, my friend ! whose philosophic eyes Look...
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