 Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by...  Select British Classics - Page 1841803Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...With aspect open shall erect bis head, And round the orb in lasting notes be read, — * Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear : Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 70 EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...read, — " btatesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sineere, In aetion faithful, and in honour elear ; s Davison for Thomas Tegg ; Lnnobled by himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd." EPISTLE TO DR.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...erect his head, And round the orb in lasting notes be read, — ' Statesman, yet friend to troth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved,... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...sorrows mix his own ! Pope, •vol. in. 23 EPITAPH ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IB WESTMINSTER-ABBET. STATESMAN, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful,...Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and houour'd by the Muse he lov'd. Pope. EPITAPH INTENDED FOR MR. ROWE. IH WESTMIKSTER-ABBEY. THJT reliques,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...£, Eliot, M. Collins,' placed this. Pope's Epitaph is engraved upon the pedestal below. Statesman! yet friend to truth, of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend : Ennobled by himself, by all approved,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...friend to trnth 1 of soul sincere In actiou faithful, and in houour clear ! Who hroke no promise, served lory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair ; Eunohled hy himself, hy all approved, Praised, wept, and houour'd, hy the Muse he loved. The lines... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...sincere, lu action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend : Ennobled by himself, by all approved, Praised, wept, and honoured by the Muse he loved. * JACOBUS CRAGGS, Regi Magnae Britanniae... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - 1827 - 218 pages
...1720, aged 35. Upon the base of the monument is this epitaph, written by Mr. Pope : — Statesman, yet friend to truth, of soul sincere, In action faithful,...honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private ewrf, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend. Ennobled by himself, by all apprav'd, Prai&'d,wept,andhonour'd,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 pages
...remembered by the politicians of every age, and can never be repeated without advantage ; — " Statesman yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend , Ennobled by himself, by all approved,... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 516 pages
...attachments of a fond relation. His country deplored the lews of 4 Patriot and a— "Statesman—yet friend to truth, of soul sincere; ; In action faithful, and in honour clear ; » / ... Who broke no promise—served no private end, , , Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend, Ennobled by himself."—... | |
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