| Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...each art to pleufr, 105 And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fonJ to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yrt with jealous eyes, And hatefor arts that caus'd himfclf to rife; zoo Damn with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...Poets are Sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it it excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had afliftcd in writing the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him at a Tory and Jacobite, who had ailill t\l in writing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had affiflcd in writing the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.'* Bvjt this is not thq beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, 194 Bless'd,with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...sudden transition to Addison : Peace to all such ! But were there one who* True genlus kindles, nnd fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please And born to write, converse, nnd lire with e Should -ncli a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...Dcnham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, • Poets are sultans, if tht:y had their will ; And Pope, ' Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, ' Bear like the Turk no hrother near the throne.' But this is not the hest of his little pieces: it is excelled hy his poem... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...Blest with each talent and each urt to please, And hurn to write, converse, and live with ease; Shonld such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the tbrone, View him with scornfol, yet with jealons eyes, And hate for arts that cansed... | |
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