 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...but were there one whofe fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires ; •L a Blefl with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write,...and live with eafe: Should fuch a man, too fond to rale alone, Bear, like he Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with feornful, yet with jealous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...! but were there one whofe fires, ., frue Genius kindles, and fair Fame infpires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, . And born to write,...eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, fear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, "View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...firet True Genius kindles, and fair Fame infpires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe :...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...fukans, if they had their will; " For every author would his brother .il IijJl," « And And Pope, ". Should fuch a man, too fond to rule " alone, ••" Bear like the Turk no brother near " the throne." But this is not the beft of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...Bleft with each talent snd each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, conyerfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...Poets are 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." But this is not the bcft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...Poets are 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." f But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...fuch ! but were there one whofe fires' True genius kindles, and fair fame infpires : Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write,...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk*, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...fuch 1 but were there one whofe fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame infpires, Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write,...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 422 pages
...fires Apollo kindled, and fair fame infpires ; Blefs'd with each talent and each art to pleafe, 45 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe :...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne ; View him with fcornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike... 
