 Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with...  The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 135by Alexander Pope - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...the Proud and Great: v Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience in die vale of peace. . . Calmly he look'd on either life...regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. s f The firft couplet of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience in die vale of peace. Calmly be look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy\L The firft couplet of this... | |
 | Eschenburg - Literature - 1788 - 472 pages
...facredfrom the proud and great. Foe to loud praife , and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. OP t & Ctlîartin... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...to loud Praife, and Friend to learned Eafe, Content with Science in the Vale of Peace, B b 4 Calmly Calmly he look'd on either Life, and here Saw nothing...regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. XI. On Mr. GAY, In Weftminfter-Abbey,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1791 - 472 pages
...fecred from the proud and great; Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace : Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, ov there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate fcait rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n, that he ha<l liv'd,... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1793 - 388 pages
...facred from the proud andgreatv. Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, 5 Content with fcience in the vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. ON MR. GAY. IN... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pages
...facr.ed from the proud and great: Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, j Content with fcience in the vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. ON MR. GAY. IN... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...Heaven kept fatred from the rr':u Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned en:, Content with fcience in the vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to feu ; From nature'» temperate feaft rafe fuiíb J • Thfjik'd Heaven that b* hid liv'd, Ы a* dy'd.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...kept facred from the proud an* Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temperate feaft rofe fttiify'd. Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd. and that i: dy'd. EPITAPHS. ON MR. GAY. '.... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend !o learned ease, j Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's teinp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, 9 XL On Mr. Cay, in Westminster- Abhey, 17J2. OF manners gentle, of... | |
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