 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...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 himself to rise; Damn with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 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 fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...each talent and each art to please, 195 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 ; 200... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 ttf Fanshaw, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...each art to pleufr, 105 And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fonJ to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yrt with jealous eyes, And hatefor arts that caus'd himfclf to rife; zoo Damn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 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 rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 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 it excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...prologues, " Poeta are fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone,...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.'* Bvjt this is not thq beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him at a Tory and Jacobite, who had ailill t\l in writing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had afliftcd in writing... | |
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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... 
