 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 σελίδες
...fair fame inspires, Bless'd 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...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 σελίδες
.... And born to write, converse, and lire with ease ; ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, i >Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,...eyes, ; And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 σελίδες
...with eaeh talent and eaeh art to please, And bom to write, eonverse, and live with east: Should sueh om this, by merited seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd himself to rise ; Daum with faint praise,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 σελίδες
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; For every authour 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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 σελίδες
...fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And bom to write, converse, and !, ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 σελίδες
...fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And Ixirn to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother neur the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 σελίδες
...fair fame inspires ; Bless'd 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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cause himself to rise : Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 σελίδες
...cautious and uniform. but Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller." " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise, Blame with faint praise, assent with evil ear, ! And without sneering, teach... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 σελίδες
...taste, are what we and our companions re«. gard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 14. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without Sneering te'ach... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 σελίδες
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, ....rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 16* Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous... | |
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike... 
