 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...respectful and tender is the reproach, how adroit and insinuating the praise— 1850 " Seen him I hare, hut in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power,— Seen him, uncumbered with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." I might adduce many other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 512 pages
...been offered had never been refused.i6i Beside the general system of morality, supposed to be conSeen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Of his first wife he has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...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, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1855 - 308 pages
...could not resist the temptatiou of a sarcasm at the characteristic tactics of the minister : — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social...tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. The ministry, however, which succeeded the hated Walpolc, -were not long in favour either with their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...come 1 Seen him I have, 2 but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; so Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me 1 let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs,... | |
 | Idler - English literature - 1856 - 386 pages
...p. 737), of course, appends the well-known eulogy on Walpole in the Epilogue to the Satires : — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power. Seen him, uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe." But Mr. C. most infelicitously... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Labor and laboring classes - 1856 - 640 pages
...virulently opposed, how respectful and tender is the reproach, how adroit and insinuating the praise — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill exchang'd for power, — Seen him, uncumber'd with a venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...* Go see SIB 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, uncumher'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...mean and interested to deserve that name. — P. king." 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, uncumbered with the venal tribe, y .Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...describes him : — 'Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchang'd for pow'r ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe.' Epilogue to the Satires, i. 29. For the grossness of his talk and his justification for it, see Boswell's... | |
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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. 
