 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 Turk,...  History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry - Stran 419avtor: Jonathan Swift - 1801Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 strani
...not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genins kindles* and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and...born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should snch a man, too fund to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vkw him with scornful,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 strani
...to all such ! but were there one whose fires' True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...whose True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires ; lllest with each talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 strani
...such ! hut were 'here one whoge fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with f ach talent and each art to please, And born to write,...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 strani
...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, 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 himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 strani
...Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author 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 to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1810 - 426 strani
...the coincidence of their opinion quamtedwtheach ot , extensivel known tion, and poetic taste • " Blest with each talent, and each art to please, " And born to write, converse, and live at ease." Mr Dewes was the highly esteemed friend of Dr Parr, Mr Grove of Lord Sheffield. A beautiful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 strani
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their -will ; For every author 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 to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 strani
...sudden transition to Addison. Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 strani
...prose run mad.J Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a Tate; How would they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called <e Persian Tales ;" a book full of fancy and imagination.... | |
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