 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...the interpretation of the following lines, in the "Imitation" of Horace's Epistle to Augustus : — " The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles, Which made old Ben, and sturdy Dennis swear, No Lord's Anointed, but a Ruttian bear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...hounding steed; So well in paint and stone they judged of merit; But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. 385 The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles; 25 15 [Quarles held a small sinecure place in the court of James I., but there a... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...steed ; So well in paint and stone they judged of merit : But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles ; Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear, ' No Lord's anointed, but a Russian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...steed ; So well in paint and stone they judged of merit : But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles ; Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear, ' No Lord's anointed, but a Russian... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1857 - 802 pages
...tradition that Charles the First pensioned Quarles, and the tradition is preserved in the lines of Pope : "The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles." The poet sneers at royal taste. If Charles had pensioned our poet, it would not... | |
 | 1858 - 890 pages
...he waa the poet, whom John Locke preferred to read, and William of Nassau delighted to honour — " The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles," — sings Pope ; elsewhere, too, the little " Nightingale of Twickingham" thus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...steed ; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit : But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero "William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles, Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear ' No Lord's anointed, but a Russian bear.'... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Anecdotes - 1860 - 352 pages
...eminence in his profession, made him a physician of the household, and knighted him. Pope says: — " The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles." The bard of Twickenham had of course a few ill words for Blackmore. In the Dunciad... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...steed : So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit ; But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles, Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear ' No Lord's anointed, but a Russian bear.'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...steed ; So well in paint and stone they judged of merit : But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles j Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear "No lord's anointed, but a Bussian bear."... | |
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Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit. 
