 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,...  Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken - Page 138redigeeritud poolt - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 lehte
...pleasantry, of the same Nahum Tate, He's now a scribbler, who was once a man.f 20. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and...Bear, like the Turk,! no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. 5 This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient. lib. Hi. p. ISO. Etsi enim Aristoteles,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 lehte
...pleasantry, of the same Nahum Tate, He's now a scribbler, who was once 20. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and...such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Tnrk,J no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. J This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 lehte
...Poets are Sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it it excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 lehte
...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 NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had afliftcd in writing the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 lehte
...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 NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had affiflcd in writing the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 lehte
...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 NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him at a Tory and Jacobite, who had ailill t\l in writing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 lehte
...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.'* Bvjt this is not thq beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 lehte
...whisperers, whose business it is to strangle all other offspring of wit in their birth." Vol. jrii. p. 300. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes. And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 lehte
...sudden transition to Addison : Peace to all such ! But were there one who* True genlus kindles, nnd fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please And born to write, converse, nnd lire with e Should -ncli a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 lehte
...Dcnham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, • Poets are sultans, if tht:y had their will ; And Pope, ' Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, ' Bear like the Turk no hrother near the throne.' But this is not the hest of his little pieces: it is excelled hy his poem... | |
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