| 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 :...near the throne ; View him with fcornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; 50 Damn with faint praife, aflent with... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 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." 7 tT •^ J . But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...liciiBle.'t Bleft xvith each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : , all nature, and all art. " Here nought but candour...reigns, indulgent " caie, [down. " CcoJ-naturM loung fcomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; Damn with faint praifc,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...¡nfpires ; Blcft with each talent and each art to plcafc, And born to v.rite, convufe, and live with cafe: Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vitw him with fcoinful, vet with jealous eyes, And hate for puts that cnus'd himfelf to rue ; Damn... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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