| 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.... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 strani
...simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff3 in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,4 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 strani
...simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff3 in doctrine, — yea, in life : Let humble Allen,4 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 strani
...applause of the public, but even the grateful acknowledgments of the receiver. " Lot humble Allon, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope. Epis. to Sat, " Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they... | |
| 1858 - 588 strani
...Seldom has the counsel of Pope been more sedulously followed than by Gavin Struthers : — " Like humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." At all times he was a man of deeds, rather than of words. What he was, was known from what he did,... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 strani
...Prior Park, of whom Pope made the beautiful and well-known couplet, — "Let humble Allen, with au awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame ;" and of whom Dr. Grainger spoke in his " Ode to Solitude," " Nor yet unrecompensed are virtue's pains,... | |
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