 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 - Page 317by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: rest, I go. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - Authors, English - 1824 - 686 pages
...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen, friends and neighbours ; let us hear what he... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...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 alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...as I trust I shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, NOTES. mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease Pope Pope 7 Away at once with love or jealousy! (Ill, iii) 137...cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...inspires; Blessed 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...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...gloss on Pope's character of Addison ("Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" [1734]) as one who is accustomed to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...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,... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 588 pages
...the Performers had no Sight of the Piano Forte. ' Pope. Episde to Dr Arbiithnot (i735l- II. a0i a: 'Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer. ] And without sneering. teach the rest to sneer. ' a9 Apr. * Not preserved: probably Horsley's reply to SW's 'inqnisitorial line' mentioned in the previnus... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...Blest with each Talent and each Art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the dirone, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise;... | |
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