 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
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 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 him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfc, 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 himlelf to rife ; Damn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...and kindred slaini'' After Dunham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother...kill." And Pope, '» " Should such a man, too fond to mid alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is net the best of his little... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...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 him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...: 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 him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...and kindied, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...: 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 Him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...prologues, " Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill.4* ' » And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throw." But this is net the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem ttf Fanshaw, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 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 him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200... | |
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