 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 strani
...letters which had passed on this occasion were, as he desired, made public.f So great was * " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written " low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to " humble," — a proof... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 strani
...immortalized, both in the character of Allworthy, and in the celebrated couplet of Pope : — (CLet humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." His kindness to Fielding was, we believe, wholly unsolicited. He once sent him two hundred pounds anonymously,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 strani
...letters which had passed on this occasion were, as he desired, made public.f So great was * " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written "low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to " humble," — a proof... | |
 | 1854 - 430 strani
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 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 strani
...happened in the ensuing year. It was supposed at the time , though without foundation, * "Let humble Allen , with an awkward shame, "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written "low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to "humble" — a proof that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 strani
...but in charity : there are few who will buy the character of 1 Ralph Allen (died 1764). " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." He is said to have been the Squire Allworthy of Fielding's "Tom Jones." benevolence at the rate for... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 strani
...insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Hamlet, iii. 1. 22 Let hnmble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Eptst. to Sat. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 strani
...insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. Hamlet, iii. 1. 23 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Epiat. to Sat. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 430 strani
...the distressed, whose virtues are immortalised in the well-known couplet of Pope : — " Let humble ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." l As a mark of gratitude to these friends, and of homage to their virtues, Fielding professed to embody... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 strani
...a shade.1 Paraphrase of Job. YOUNG. Die of a rose, in aromatic pain. Essay on Man, epistle i. POPE. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to Satires. POPE. Drest in a little brief authority. Measure for Measure, act ii, scene 2. SHAKESPEARE.... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
