Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the... The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... - Stran 2avtor: Jonathan Swift - 1813Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 strani
...True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 strani
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; For every authour would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...with eaeh talent and eaeh art to please, And bom to write, eonverse, and live with east: Should sueh om this, by merited brother near the throne, View him with seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 strani
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And Ixirn lyric song. Thither shall all the valiant youth resort,...And from his memory inHame their breasts To match brother neur the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 strani
...genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cause... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 strani
...taste, are what we and our companions re«. gard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 14. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, , And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 strani
...cautious and uniform. but Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller." " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 strani
...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease j he gives his wood«. To beasts his pastures, and to fish his flood brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 strani
...and taste, are what we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 10. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
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