 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 440 pages
...Blefs'd with each talent and each art to pleafe, 45 ' And born to write, converfe, and live with eafc : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne ; View him with fcornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; r«... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - Biography - 1761 - 534 pages
...infpires, Bleft with each talent and each art to plfeafe, 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 fearful eyes, And hate for arts, that caus'd himfelf to rife j Damn... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 544 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 fearful eyes, And hate for arts, that caused himfelf to rife j Damn... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 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 himfelf to rife j Damn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 338 pages
...talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe: •;-.• ,-/ „' ; -1 Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk^ no brother near the throne ; . View him with fcornful,yetwith fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife; Damn... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...Bleft with rtch 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 rival near the throne, " View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, " And hate for arts, that caus'd... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...Bleft with eftch talent and each art to pleafe, " And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, " View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, ' " And hate for arts, thatcaus'd... | |
 | Bibliography - 1776 - 586 pages
...artifice, for even the moft copious and expreffive language. For a fpecimen in this way take thefe lines of Pope, Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the TUI"k, no brother near the throne. View him wiih fcornful, yet with jealous eyes. And h.itc for arts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...their brothers, fons, and " kindred flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are fultans, if they had their will; " For every author...Bear like the Turk no brother near " the throne." But this is not the bcft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
..." Poets are fukans, if they had their will; " For every author would his brother .il IijJl," « And And Pope, ". Should fuch a man, too fond to rule "...Bear like the Turk no brother near " the throne." But this is not the beft of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
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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... 
