...Pope's portrait of Addison ("Atticus") in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot contains the lines: "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, / Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne" (lines 197-98); and Johnson's "rivals in the Roman state" perhaps has in mind the tragic impasse in...

...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame infpires : Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe :...a man, too fond to rule alone^ Bear, like the Turk J, no brother near the throne^ View ' Ver. igo; f Sat. i. J This is from Bacon de Augmentis Sclent,...

...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 that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...

...born with Talents, bred in Arts to please, Was form'd to write, converse & live with ease; Shou'd 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 :" Pope, mss., marked "Precious" in pencil by someone, Hiirlcy Papers,...

...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 that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...

...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 that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,...