 | Manfred Pfister - Literary Collections - 2002 - 220 pages
...with Talents, hred in Arts tu piease, Was form'd 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 scomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for Arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...Pope's portrait of Addison ("Atticus") in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot contains the lines: "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, / Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne" (lines 197-98); and Johnson's "rivals in the Roman state" perhaps has in mind the tragic impasse in... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 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 J, no brother near the throne^ View ' Ver. igo; f Sat. i. J This is from Bacon de Augmentis Sclent,... | |
 | Michel Conan - Architecture - 2005 - 452 pages
...born with Talents, bred in Arts to please, Was form'd to write, converse & live with ease; Shou'd 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 :" Pope, mss., marked "Precious" in pencil by someone,... | |
 | 張錯 - Literature - 2005 - 360 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 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... | |
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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... 
