 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 pages
...fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires : Blest with each talent a1id each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no hrother near the throne jView him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...nothing but dishonour on the man who wrote them. Peace to all such! but were there one whose firei True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...not CONGREVE'S § self was safe! Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires: Blest with each talent and...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...not CONGREVE'S § self was safe ! Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires: Blest with each talent and...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...wrote the following keen and polished lines, forming part of his ' Prologue to the Satires : ' f ' Were there one, whose fires True genius kindles and...Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Westminster (London, England) - 1816 - 220 pages
...him, were utterly estranged from him. If then we, who are less gifted by nature, and not like him, " Blest with each talent and each art to please, " And born to act, converse, and live with ease :" If we, I say, with worse motives pursue the same conduct, we shall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...Poets are sultans, if they had their will y " 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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...genins kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease, Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Tork, no hruther near the throne, View him with scoroful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...following character of Atticus, delineated by Pope, is a very lively and forcible example of this figure. " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near his throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to... | |
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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... 
