 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...infpircs ; Bled with each talent and each art topleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafa : Should fuch' a man; too fond to rule alone, Bear, like; the Tuck,, no brother near the throne,; View, him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...talent and each art to plt-afc. And born te write, converfe, and live with eafc : Should fuch a mail, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealou« eye«, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; joo... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...Kli.lt with each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfc, and live with cafe : • 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 himlelf to rife ; Damn... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...each talent and each art to please, io,5 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 ; 20*... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...infpirel., Bleft with each talent and each art to pleaft, And born to write, converfe, and live witheafe; Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the T urk, no rival near the- throne, view him with fcornful, yet with lealous eyes, And hate for arts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, '» " Should such a man, too fond to mid alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is net the best of his little pieces'.' it is excelled by his poem" to •fJmhaw, and his elegy on Cowley.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...guilt " Of eaftern kings, who, to fecure their reign, " Muft have their brothers, fons, and kindied, flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues,...the throne." But this is not the beft of his little piecfcs : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cow-ley. His praife of Fanfhaw's... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. 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 with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 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 fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 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 fearful 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... 
