 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824
...shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bon-lei. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mcr (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...shall, that part is untrue, we ought surely to give little credit to the rest. Bowles. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, mer (which Tickell had omitted to insert amongst Addison's Works) in a long epistle to Congreve, affirms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824
...will; For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule atone, 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 on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825
...are sultans, if they had their will ; For ev'ry 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 on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...are sultans, if they had their will ; For every authour 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 on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 562 pages
...with eaeh talent and eaeh art to please, And bom to write, eonverse, and live with east: Should sueh om this, by merited View him with seornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that eaus'd himself to rise ; Daum... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 807 pages
...with each talent and each art to please, And Ixirn to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother neur the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...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 cause himself to rise : Damn... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 392 pages
...are what we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 14. 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 ; 5 Damn... | |
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike... 
