 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe! And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, io,5 And born to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...swear not Congreve's self was safe ! Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair fame inspires : Blest with each talent and...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...swear not Congreve's self was safe! Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair fame inspires: Blest with each talent and...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... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...net CONGEEVE'S J self wat safe! Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires : Blest with each talent and...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...Tate, 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...says, with equal pleasantry, of the same Nahum Tate, He's now a scribbler, who was once a »mn.\ 20. Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk,:); no brother near the throne, View * Ver. 190. f Sat- >• J This is from Bacon do Augmentis Scient. lib.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Tate,* YOUNG says, with equal 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...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.... | |
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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... 
