 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 10 pagina’s
...united, would drive the world before them.1 I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus ; but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among...I do not include the subalterns, of which you are seldom without a large tribe. Under the name of poets and scribblers I suppose you mean the fools you... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883
...and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they would be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus : but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883
...and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they would be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus : but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883
...and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they would be united, would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus : but envy, and party, and pride, have hindered it among... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1919 - 370 pagina’s
...all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united would drive the world before them. I think it was so among the poets in the time of Augustus, but envy, party, and pride have hindered it among us.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 364 pagina’s
...all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them." Letter to Pope, 2o Sept., 1723 (Correspondence, ed. Ball, 111.175). bodies which constitute the universe,... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 225 pagina’s
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done, they are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the world before them" (The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams [Oxford, 1963-65], II, 465). 3. Irvin Ehrenpreis's... | |
 | Patricia C. Brückmann - 1997 - 184 pagina’s
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the World before them" (20 Sept. 1723, 2.465). This passage, sometimes thought affirmatively cheerful, comes in fact from... | |
 | Eve Tavor Bannet - 2005 - 347 pagina’s
...all Men of Genius, and would fain have done it: they are seldom above three or four Contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the World before them. I think it was so among the Poets in the Time of Augustus; but Envy and Party, and Pride, have hindered it among us.... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Contemporaries and, if they could be united, would drive the world before them. (Con, n, p. 199) For Pope the desire to establish around himself a circle of virtuous men, to correspond... | |
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I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. 
