 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thaiik'd heav'n that he had lived, and that he died. The first couplet... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; v From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfj'd, Thank'd heaven that he liv V, and that he dy'd. The... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept lacrcd from the Proud tai Great: 43ยป POPE's POEMS. Calmly he loek'd on either Life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feait r~fe fatisfy'd, 'I iijiit'J Heaven due he had liv'd,and that he dy'd, XL On Mr. GAY,... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 232 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science, in the vale of peace; Calmly he look'd on either life,...nothing to regret, or there to fear; From "Nature's temp 'rate feast, rose satisfi'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that hedy'd. HISTORICAL ANECDOTE.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 486 pages
...facred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud Praife, and Friend to learned Eafe, 5 Content with Science in the Vale of Peace. Calmly he look'd on either Life,...fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, 9 Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. NOTES. VER. 9. From Nature1 s temp' rate feaft,... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...sacred from the proud and great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to karned:ea&e, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank' d heav'n that he hadliv'd, and that he dy'd. * This plain floor ON JOHN... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace ; Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, nor there to fear ;t From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied ; He liv'd respected, and lamented... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 pages
...Beleeve me, reader, can fay more, Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a truly honeft man. Ver. 7. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. The fame fentiment is found in MartiaPs Epigrams, x. *j. Pneteritofque dies, et totos refpicit annos... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 478 pages
...Beleeve me, reader, can fay more, Than many a braver marble can, lirre Set a truly honcft man. Ver. 7. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. The fame fentiment is found in Martial's Epigrams, x. 23. Pneteritofque dies, et totos refpicit annos... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dyM. XI. ON MR. GAY, IB Westminster-Abbey,... | |
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A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there... 
