 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...deserved praise he would not deny him to the world; and, as a proof of this disposition 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 caus'd himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 328 pages
...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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise,... | |
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And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne... 
