 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1869 - 512 pages
...forgotten. Though learn'd, well-bred ; and though well-bred, Modestly bold, and humanly severe; [sincere; Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly...the merit of a foe? Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined ; A knowledge both of books and human kind ; Generous converse; a soul exempt from pride;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...forgotten. Though learn'd, well-bred ; and though well-bred, Modestly bold, and humanly severe; [sincere; Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe 3 Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined; A knowledge both of books and human kind ; Generous converse... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1871 - 468 pages
...to teach, and yet not proud to know ; TJnbiass'd, or by favor, or by spite ; Not dully prepossess'd, nor blindly right ; Though learn'd, well-bred; and,...freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe ? 5. Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined ; A knowledge both of books and human kind ; Generous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...: Excursusquo breves teutant. Nor forage far, but short excursions make. Dryden. — WAEEFIELD. 74 Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly...the merit of a foe ? Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined ; A knowledge hoth of books and human kind ; Gen'rous converse ; a soul exempt from pride... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...teach, and yet not proud to know ? IJnbiass'd, or by favour, or by spite ; Not dully prepossess'd, nor blindly right ; Though learn'd, well-bred ; and...freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe ? Bless'd with a taste exact, yet unconfined ; ei D A knowledge both of books and humau kind ; Generous... | |
 | Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...know ; Unbias'd or by favour, or by spite; Not dully prepossessed, nor blindly right; Though learned, well-bred ; and, though well-bred, sincere ; Modestly...freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe ; Blessed with a taste exact, yet unconfined ; A knowledge both of books and human kind ; Generous... | |
 | 1872 - 328 pages
...spite ; Not dully prepossessed, nor blindly right ; Though learned, well bred ; and, though well bred, sincere ; Modestly bold and humanly severe ; Who,...faults can freely show, — And gladly praise the merits of a foe ? If unknown to our finished English Poet, whose lines I have quoted, doubtless such... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...favour, or by spite ; Not dully prepossess'd, nor blindly right ; Tho' learn'd, well-bred ; and tho' well-bred, sincere, Modestly bold, and humanly severe...exact, yet unconfin'd ; A knowledge both of books and human kind : 640 Gen'rous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise, with reason on... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...confounded with .humane (kind and compassionate); nor humanly with humanely, as in those lines of Pope: " Though learn'd, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere; Modestly bold, and humanly severe." Humanity bears both senses. Ceremonious (attentive to the forms of civility) must not be used instead... | |
 | Lewis Scharf - English literature - 1875 - 598 pages
...dully preposses'd, not blindly right; Though learned, weU-bred; and though well-bred, sincere; Modestty bold , and humanly severe; Who to a friend his faults...freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe? ') Bel Chaucer 1st von dieser art des reimes noch nichts zu finden; die stelle im original lautet,... | |
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Gen'rous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise, with reason on his side ? Such once were Critics ; such the happy few, Athens and Rome in better ages knew. The mighty... 
