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 Turk,... The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Side 317av George Campbell - 1801Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 sider
...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 Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 sider
...birth." Vol. vii. p. 300. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...sneering, teach the rest to sneer : Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 sider
...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 Turk,! no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. 5 This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient. lib. Hi. p. ISO. Etsi enim Aristoteles,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 sider
...Poets are Sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it it excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 sider
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had affiflcd in writing the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 sider
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had afliftcd in writing the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 sider
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him at a Tory and Jacobite, who had ailill t\l in writing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 sider
...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.'* Bvjt this is not thq beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 sider
...whisperers, whose business it is to strangle all other offspring of wit in their birth." Vol. jrii. p. 300. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes. And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 sider
...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 Tnrk,J no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. J This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient.... | |
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