I'm sped, If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with... Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Page 2631816Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...if friends, they read me dead, Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face4 I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguifh,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how Wretched II Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, Were want of goodnefs and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face. I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguifh,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, 3 5 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face. I lit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguifh,... | |
| James Beattie - Truth - 1771 - 588 pages
...partakes fo much of both qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it ; " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; «' And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." • ' • • • » . But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency... | |
| James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...it partakes fo much of both qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it: " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...if friend*, they read me dead. Sciz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs...grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilh, and an aching head; And drop at laft, but in unwilling... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd, and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of Face. I fit with fad civility ; I read .With honeft anguifh, and an aching head ; And drop... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...if friends, they read me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r efface. 1 fit with fad civility, I read With honeft angiiiftj,... | |
| George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 pages
...raifing public apprehenfions, with regard to the fecufity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commentaries, vol. ip 328, 4th edit, • -1: K 3 CHA t CHAP. IX. The Commercial Failures, in 1763.... | |
| George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1794 - 468 pages
...raifing public apprehenfions, with regard to the fccurity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commerjtajies, vol. ip ^28, 4th edit. CHAT. CHAP. IX. Commercial Failure!, in 1763. — Opinions... | |
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