 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 604 pages
...and boy, on a pelestal. Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, hut now I know it. Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man,...temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age. Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great. A safe companion,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. XI. ON MR, GAY. IN WKSTMI.NSTSR-ABBEY, 1732. wearied fowler roves, When frosts have whiten'd all the naked groves ; Where doves in flocks the tempering virtuous rage, Fonn'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...writings, censure could find very little to blame in his life. ON MR. GAY, In Westminster Abbey, 1732. Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native- humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate;... | |
 | Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...it. Underneath are these verses by Mr. Pope, who lived always in great friendship with Mr. Gay : — Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child ; • • With native humour, temp ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once, and lash the age ; Above temptation in a low estate,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. —GAY, JOHN, 1732, My Own Epitaph. Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour temp 'ring virtuous rage ; Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...hid in Night : God said, Let Neivton be ! and all was Light. 743. EPITAPH ON GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child : With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation, in a low estate,... | |
 | Association of American Geographers - Electronic journals - 1917 - 154 pages
...knowledge was imparted to others, was a striking characteristic of the man. As the poet phrased it : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild : In wit a man, simplicity a child." Even under the stresses that sometimes arose in the early days of the service and indeed in some of... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...eloquent with case, Intent to reason, or polite to please. 582 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 378 Of manners gentle, of affections mild! In wit a man, simplicity a child. 583 Pope: On Gay. Line 1. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus... | |
 | Elizabeth Christine Cook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1912 - 302 pages
...May 19, 1737. Pope's epitaph on John Gay's monument at Westminster, containing the well-known lines, Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child, is quoted in the Gazette,36 doubtless from The London Magazine of five months before,37 where it is... | |
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Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted... 
