 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...my modest satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such Poets made a Tate. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not ADDISON himself was safe. True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore. REV. CHAS. WOLFE. WERE there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease :... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 706 pages
...the contrary, will die of vexation and spite that he cannot have ' Caractacus' acted on the spot. " Peace to all such ! " But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, [Pope.] he would immortalise you, for all you have been carrying on in Jersey, and for all you shall... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...varied beings people every star, May tell why heav'n has made us as we are. 11. Peace to all such 1 but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease«... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate " — the poet proceeds to strike at higher game : — " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires : Bless' d with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1863 - 508 pages
...subdued jealousy of other men's glory which drew from Pope those far-famed nud admirable lines — "were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and...fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art lo please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...were a sufficient reason for weeping, so much we know from the very first. The very first line says, " Peace to all such. But were there one whose fires true genius kindles and fair fame inspires." Thus falls to the ground the whole antithesis of this famous character. We are to change our mood from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...inserted in the Epistle to Arbuthnot. which now forms the Prologue to the Satires. It is as follows : • "Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And boru to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...Pope, and that they should call Mr. Tickell's emulation Mr. Addison's envy — if envy it were. And were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...tones of expostulation, whilst he made Addison feel what a dangerous antagonist he had to do with.* " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;... | |
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Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest 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... 
