 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...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,...hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pages
...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,...hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each ers, Celestial palms, and ever-blooming flowers. Thither,...Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 pages
...meurent donc dans leur obscurité. True genius kindles, aud fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write,...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - 1824 - 686 pages
...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...for arts that caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen, friends and neighbours ; let us... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...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 - 1824 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 pages
...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, NOTES. mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 to write,...hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...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,... | |
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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,... 
