 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 páginas
...who is said to have been the original of Allworthy in Tom Jones. It was he of whom Pope wrote : — ' Let low-born Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.' Epilogue to the Satires, i. 135. Low-born in later editions was changed to humble. Warburton not only... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 páginas
...assures us, that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, 8 So Pope : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 9 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. i. which called them Lovers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, r 1 • So Pope : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 9 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. 1. which called them Lovers... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 páginas
...assures us, that their Incas,. above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, 8 So Pope: " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it jame." 9 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. i . which called... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...that their Incas, above all their titles, esteemed that the highest, ' So Pope : " Let humble AJlen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." » P. Valerius Poplicola, the third Roman Consul, AUC 245. See VAL. MAX. iv. 1. which called them Lovers... | |
 | 1905 - 726 páginas
...Pope was dead.* Allen lives in his verse, and in a line which has become proverbial : — 1 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.' A frankly accurate and famous description which marks the writer as a man of rare literary skill, whilst... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 328 páginas
...bishop alludes, is the censure which he says has been passed on the following lines : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." J I must confess, I never heard these lines censured. I have often heard them commended. The public,indeed,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 324 páginas
...the bishop alludes, is the censure whkh he says has been passed on the following lines : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." \ I must confess, I never heard these lines censured. I have often heard them commended. The public,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...well ; A simple quaker, or a quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doctrine, — yea in life: Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame : Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue and to me ; Dwell in a monk,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 páginas
...well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doctrine — yea, in life : Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue and to me ; Dwell in a monk, or... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
