 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 - 1824 - 494 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, mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | 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. Bon-lei. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mcr (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 strani
...Peace 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...brother 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 - 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 seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd himself to rise ; Daum with faint praise,... | |
 | 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 to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 strani
...to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blese'd with each talent and each art to please, , . And born to write, converse, and lire with ease ; ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, i >Bear, like the Turk, no brother near... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 strani
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And bom !, jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 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 each art to please, And Ixirn to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 strani
...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 cause himself to rise : Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | 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...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
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