 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, t* Bear like the Turk no brother near the " throne."...excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cowley. . t ,•••'• I ' ' " His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini, contains a very fpritcly and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...prologues, " Poets 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." f But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...: Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 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 him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd hrmfelf to rife j Damn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...infpires, Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 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 him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alono, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But...this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is ^celled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...prologues, " Poets 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." 7 tT •^ J . But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him. with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate .for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; 200... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...prologues, " Poets 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,...excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cowley. Hispraifeof Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini, contains a very fpritely and judicious chara&er: of a good... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 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 him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife; ace Damn... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...liciiBle.'t Bleft xvith each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; 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... 
