 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...sultans, if they had their will y " 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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...of Atticus, delineated by Pope, is a very lively and forcible example of this figure. " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near his throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...brothers, sons, and kindred, slain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues. " Poets are 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...brothers, sons, and kindred, slain. After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, Poets are 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...brothers, sons, and kindred, slain." After Denhara, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 328 pages
...are 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 is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...and kindred, slain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets are sultans, if they hail 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 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 him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd 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... 
