 | George Herbert Palmer - 1918 - 334 strani
...All the distant din the world can keep Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. . Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. Feign what I will, and paint it e'er so strong, Some rising genius sins up to my song. My head and... | |
 | George Herbert Palmer - 1918 - 338 strani
...sense. All the distant din the world can keep Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. Feign what I will, and paint it e'er so strong, Some rising genius sins up to my song. My head and... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 strani
...as I say, but not as I do. 209. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1328-1400), Good Counsail of Chaucer. (Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame), Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. 210. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Epilogue to the Satires. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull... | |
 | John Earle - 1920 - 218 strani
...then others in sin. Compare Pope's couplet (Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue i, 135) — 'Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame.' 20. An Ordinairie Honest Fellow. P. 26, l. 7. above board. Johnson says that the figure is borrowed... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 strani
...damn'd to fame. POPE— Dunciad. Bk. III. L. 158. Essay on Man. IV. 284. (See also SAVAGE) 15 Let humble a chaleur et de la froideur du sang. All the passions are nothing else than POPE — Epilogue to Satire. Dialogue IL 135. 16 Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. POPE— Epistles... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 strani
...none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank. When Jesus dwelt. TCIBHO.NS. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to Satires, Dial, i POPE. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1926 - 232 strani
...Allen, of Bath, and to the oft-quoted couplet from Pope's Epilogue to the Satires of Horace 'Let humble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.' Page 6 1 . tho1 even Henley himself. John Henley (1692-1756), better known as 'Orator Henley,' had... | |
 | Alvin Fay Harlow - 1928 - 612 strani
...he raised a company of volunteers and equipped them at his own cost. Pope wrote of him: Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. He served for a time as mayor of Bath, and died in 1764, leaving a name still revered in that city,... | |
 | 1921 - 608 strani
...his fortune by ' farming the cross posts,' and whom Pope celebrated in a famous couplet : Let Humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. He was, indeed, a person of the most benevolent disposition, who delighted in the society of literary... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1899 - 390 strani
...preaching well; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Llandaffin doctrine, — yea in life: Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
