 I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with...  An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present ... - Page 133by George Chalmers - 1794 - 289 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Beattie - Truth - 1771 - 588 pages
...partakes fo much of both qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it ; " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; «' And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." • ' • • • » . But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...it partakes fo much of both qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it: " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...me dead. Sciz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilh, and an aching head; And drop at laft, but in unwilling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...dead. Seiz'd, and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of Face. I fit with fad civility ; I read .With honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 pages
...well-meaning defires to do national good, by raifing public apprehenfions, with regard to the fecufity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh,...grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commentaries, vol. ip 328, 4th edit, • -1: K 3 CHA t CHAP. IX. The Commercial Failures, in 1763.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...down to judge, h> w wretched I ? Who can't be filent, und who will not lie : To laugh, were want nf goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of. face. 1 fit with fad civility; I read With horeft anguifh. and an aching head ; And drop at lair, hut in... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 580 pages
...illiterate. * Pope perhaps had this passage in his thoughts when lie wrote, " To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face : " / sit with sad civility , — I read "With honest anguish and an aching head." - - Our author appears... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1804 - 488 pages
...well-meaning defires to do national good, by raifr jng public apprehenfions, with regard to the fecuyity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace; to be grave, exceeds all power of face, * Commentaries, vol. ip 328, 4th edit. CHAP. IX. 'The Commercial... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...readme dead. Stiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be lilent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face : I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilb, and an aching heail ; And drop... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...qualities, that one knows hot with what temper of mind to consider it : " To laugh, were want of goodness, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. But why insist so long on the universal acknowledgment of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident... | |
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