 Blest 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...  The Works - Seite 31von Jonathan Swift - 1803Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 Seiten
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 Seiten
...expressive 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...brother near the throne, View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, |) assent with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 Seiten
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 Seiten
...Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 Seiten
...Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...brother near the throne View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...to all such ! but were there one whose fires' True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, o G - jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...such ! hut were 'here one whoge fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with f ach talent and each art to please, And born to write,...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, 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 ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 Seiten
...How would they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe! How wouH they swear, not CONGREVE'S § self was safe! Peace to all such! but were there one whose...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called (t Persian Tales ;" a book full of fancy and imagination.—... | |
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