 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 strani
...have been the original of Allworthy in Tom Jones. It was he of whom Pope wrote : — ' Let low-born Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.' Epilogue to the Satires, i. 135. Low-born in later editions was changed to humble. Warburton not only... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 strani
...Peru assures us, that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, 1 So Pope : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." » P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. 1. which called them Lovers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 strani
...assures us, that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, r 1 • So Pope : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 9 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. 1. which called them Lovers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 strani
...Peru assures us, that their Incas,. above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, 8 So Pope: " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it jame." 9 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. i . which called... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 strani
...that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, ' So Pope : " Let humble AJlen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." » P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. 1. which called them Lovers... | |
 | 1865 - 630 strani
...with the original of Squire Allworthy, and by Pope's couplet embalming his real name, — ' Let bumble Allen. with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.' Pope, when he introduced Warburton at Prior Park, meant only to provide his sturdy henchman with a useful... | |
 | 1905 - 726 strani
...few weeks Pope was dead.* Allen lives in his verse, and in a line which has become proverbial : — 1 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.' A frankly accurate and famous description which marks the writer as a man of rare literary skill, whilst... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 324 strani
...to which the bishop alludes, is the censure whkh he says has been passed on the following lines : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." \ I must confess, I never heard these lines censured. I have often heard them commended. The public,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 328 strani
...to which the bishop alludes, is the censure which he says has been passed on the following lines : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." J I must confess, I never heard these lines censured. I have often heard them commended. The public,indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 strani
...in preaching well ; A simple quaker, or a quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doctrine, — yea in life: Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame : Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue and to me ; Dwell in a monk,... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
