 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; Alike...  The lives of the English poets - Page 64by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...with each talent and each art to pleafe, 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 him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him. with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate .for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; 200... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...and kindred flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are fultans, if, they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alono, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...flain." <7 / i • if- M' After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are 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." 7 tT •^ J .... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...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 him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife; ace Damn... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...xvith each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch , and all art. " Here nought but candour reigns, indulgent " caie, [down. " Cco View him with fcomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; Damn... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...with each talent and each art to plcafc, And born to v.rite, convufe, and live with cafe: Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vitw him with fcoinful, vet with jealous eyes, And hate for puts that cnus'd himfelf to rue ; Damn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...and kindred, flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are 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." But this is not... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...talent and each art to plt-afc. And born te write, converfe, and live with eafc : Should fuch a mail, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealou« eye«, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; joo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...and kin" dred flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are 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." But this... | |
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