 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 strani
...not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | 1822 - 284 strani
...Peace to allsuch! Butwere there one whose fires True genius 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 caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 strani
...: and what deserved praise he would not deny him to the world ; and, as a proof of this disposition Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...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 the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 strani
...it to remain unemployed. " Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 strani
...it to remain unemployed. " Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and...near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, come, I come ! prepare your roseate bowers, Celestial...Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 strani
...Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius 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 caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 strani
...bien, qu'ils meurent donc dans leur obscurité. True genius kindles, aud fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 strani
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, NOTES. mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve,... | |
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