 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 strani
...writings, censure could find very little to blame in his life. XL 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 rago, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 strani
...satisfy'd, Thanlc'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'4. ON MR. GAY, W WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. Or 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 strani
...could find very little to blame in his life. XI. ON MR. GAT. IK WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. Of manncrs 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 strani
...censure could find very little to blame in his life. I XI. ON MR. GAT. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; ' In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; 'f With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age; Above... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 strani
...lay hid in night ; God said, " Let Newton be !" and all was light. On Mr. Gay. ' 'Of *Mmmere gentlft, 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 strani
...censure could find very little to blame in his life. XI. / • 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 strani
...affections mild ; Tn wit a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage, ForinM to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great: A safe companion nnd an ealy fr1end, Unblam'd through life, lamented... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 748 strani
...April 22, 1717; and was buried at Tarbick. P. 121. "John Gay, the ingenious Poet, whom Pope styles " Of manners gentle, of affections mild, In wit a man, simplicity a child ;" yet this character is proved untrue, by the strong passions he wa* possessed of, which hurt him... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 788 strani
...part of Pope's epitaph on Gay, the following lines being equally applicable to one as the other : " Of manners gentle, of affections mild : In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child." For the credit of Mr .Hodgson it should be observed,that Clotwortîi y the first Earl of Massareene,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 strani
...writings, censure could find very little to blame in his life. XL 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... | |
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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... 
