 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 pagina’s
...Bleft with each talent snd each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, conyerfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; 20*... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pagina’s
...: Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk*, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd hrmfelf to rife j Damn... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pagina’s
...infpires, Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagina’s
...who, to fecure their reign, *• Muft have their brothers, fons, and kindred flain." <7 / i • if- M' After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets..." Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." 7 tT •^ J . But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alono, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But...this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is ^celled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pagina’s
...Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him. with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate .for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; 200... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pagina’s
...Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife; ace Damn... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...liciiBle.'t Bleft xvith each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfe, and live with cafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; Damn... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...¡nfpires ; Blcft with each talent and each art to plcafc, And born to v.rite, convufe, and live with cafe: Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Vitw him with fcoinful, vet with jealous eyes, And hate for puts that cnus'd himfelf to rue ; Damn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pagina’s
...Of eaftern kings, who, to fecure their reign, " Muft have their brothers, fons, and kindred, flain." After Denham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, " Poets...excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini, contains a very fpritcly and judicious character of a good... | |
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike... 
