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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... "
preface biograpical and critical, to the works of the english poets - Page 14
by samuel johnson - 1779
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 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 affiflcd in writing...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 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 * Ver. 190. f Sat. i. 5 This is from Bacon de Augmentis Scient. lib. Hi. p. ISO. Etsi enim Aristoteles,...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...Bless'd,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 neat the throne, % View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyei. And hate for arts that caus'd himself...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...with each talent and each urt to please, And hurn to write, converse, and live with ease; Shonld such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the tbrone, View him with scornfol, yet with jealons eyes, And hate for arts that cansed...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author ..., Volume 9

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...Orrery, in one of his prologues, • Poets are sultans, if tht:y had their will ; And Pope, ' Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, ' Bear like the Turk no hrother near the throne.' But this is not the hest of his little pieces: it is excelled hy his poem...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Blest with each talent and each art to please And born to write, converse, nnd lire with e Should -ncli a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the thron View him with scornful, vet with jealous eve And hate for arts that cain'd himself...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should snch a man, too fund to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vkw him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cnus'd himself to rise ; Damn...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 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 cans'd himself to rise; Damn...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...
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