 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...court. Go, see sir Robert P. See sir Robert ! — hum — And never laugh — for all my life to come ? Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; 30 Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...all they have written, as hy ono ahort occasional compliment of our author : 'Seen hnu I have; hut y righteous Themis and hy thundering Jove, (Themis, who gives to councils, uncumher'd hy the venal trihe, Smi'e without art, and win without a hrihe.' /er. 315. Arnall.J William... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 340 pages
...INTERVIEW. " Go see Sir Robert ! P.— See Sir Robert ! hum — And never laugh, for all my life to come ! Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...groat. Go see SIR ROBERT — P. See Sin ROBERT!— hum!— And never laugh — for all my life to come ! oZ ) Q uncumbcr'd8 with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me !... | |
 | English fiction - 1842 - 418 pages
...INTERVIEW. * Go see Sir Robert ! P.— See Sir Kobert ! hum— And never laugh, for all rny life to come ! Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure ill exchanged for power; Seen him encumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. , Would he oblige me t Let... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 488 pages
...social qualities, — Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. And Sir Charles Hanbury Williams exclaims, — Thus was he form'd to govern, and to please, Familiar... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 492 pages
...everybody could converse with equal facility. Pope says of him, speaking of his social qualities,— Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...Robert Walpole in private life is thus admirably touched by Pope, in Ijis Epilogue to the Satires — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumbercd by the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 590 pages
...Robert Walpole in private life is thus admirably touched by Pope, in his Epilogue to the Satires — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power; This is not a letter, but a codicil to my last. You will soon probably have news enough — yet appearances... | |
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Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. 
