 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...often adopted : " But whither am I ftray'd ? I need " not raife " Trophies to thee from other mens " difpraife ; *' Nor is thy fame on leffer ruins built,...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 on Cowley. His praife... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...Bleft with each talent snd each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, conyerfe, 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 himfelf to rife ; 20*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
..." Trophies to thee from other mens difpraiie ; " Nor is thy fame on lefler ruins built, " Ncr'need thy jufter title the foul guilt " Of eaftern kings,...Bear like the Turk no brother near the " throne." f 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... 
