 | Francis Kilvert - 1866 - 254 strani
...with me on this as on any, nay, on every other occasion. The verses as they now stand are : Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Efil. to the Satires, Dial. I. v. 135-6. Pope had originally styled him "low-born Allen," but afterwards... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 strani
...A simple Quaker, or a Quakers wife, || Outdo LlandafT,If in 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,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1864 - 536 strani
...person of Allworthy, and Pope has celebrated his benevolence in the well-known lines : — 'Let humble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.' On Allen's death the cross posts were brought under the control of the Postmaster-General, and the... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 strani
...Line 163. Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride ! They had no poet, and they died. Book iv. Ode 9. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Liu* 136. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : God said, ' Let Newton be !' and... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 194 strani
...Ralph Allen — "the Squire Allworthy" of Fielding's Tom Jones, and eulogized by Pope, — " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame," — had introduced here the bathing-machine, and drawn attention to the salubrity of its position.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 strani
...; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife,2 Outdo Landaff 3 in 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... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 strani
...of Pope, Warburton, and Fielding, celebrated in the well-known lines of the first : — " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame Do good by stealth, and blush to find U feme.* Man of Blood. An expression which occurs in the Old Testament (2 Sam. xvi. 7), in a marginal... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 strani
...Line 159. Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty. Satire vi. Booh ii. Line 220. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136. To Berkeley every virtue under heaven. Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue ii.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 strani
...was dedicated was the well-known philanthropist, Ralph Allen, immortalized by Pope — " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Not only would Allen seem to have been a benefactor to Fielding in the days of his urgent distress,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 strani
...Line 159. Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty. Satire vi. Book ii. Line 220. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136. To Berkeley every virtue under heaven. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue ii.... | |
| |
Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
