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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ... - Page 87
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...infpircs ; Bled with each talent and each art topleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafa : Should fuch' a man; too fond to rule alone, Bear, like; the Tuck,, no brother near the throne,; View, him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...talent and each art to plt-afc. And born te write, converfe, and live with eafc : Should fuch a mail, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother...near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealou« eye«, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; joo Damn with faint praife, affent...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 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 beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...Kli.lt with each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfc, and live with cafe : • Should fuch a man. too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himlelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife, Iflent with civil...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...each talent and each art to please, io,5 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 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 ; 20* Damn with faint...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...infpirel., Bleft with each talent and each art to pleaft, And born to write, converfe, and live witheafe; Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the T urk, no rival near the- throne, view him with fcornful, yet with lealous eyes, And hate for arts...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...Pope was in the midlt of his engagements on the fame fubjeft, and by a creature of Mr. Addifon's, made Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Alike NOTES. made him fufpeft this to be another maft from the fame quiver : And after a diligent enquiry,...
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History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 17

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 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 faint praise,...
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