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... Elegant Extracts - Seite 252herausgegeben von - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...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...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, Ami, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 Seiten
...converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with...praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering', others teach to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 Seiten
...rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no hrother near the throne jView him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise...praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teuch the rest to sneer : Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 Seiten
...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...hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faiut praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Wilting to wound,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1814 - 310 Seiten
...perceived, too profoundly felt, and too unmercifully avenged. These are alluded to, when the Satirist sings, Damn with faint praise ; assent with civil leer ;...to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, &c. * From Lord Egmont's MS. Collections. See the Addpnda to Kippis's Biographia Britanoica. r Accusations... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 Seiten
...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; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 Seiten
...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; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 Seiten
...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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach... | |
| 1817 - 398 Seiten
...claims; they 'are as £ull of envy as they are devoid of talent; they, in the words of Pope ; — . Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And...sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. RULES TO DISCOVER MARRIED COUPLES IN... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 Seiten
...hruther near the throne, View him with scoroful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to hlame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, hy... | |
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