 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...  The Works - Page 31by Jonathan Swift - 1803Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...expressive language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...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, |) assent with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ;...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...brother near the throne View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...to all such ! but were there one whose fires' True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, o G - jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...such ! hut were 'here one whoge fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with f ach talent and each art to please, And born to write,...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, 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 caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...How would they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe! How wouH they swear, not CONGREVE'S § self was safe! Peace to all such! but were there one whose...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; * Ambrose Philips translated a book called (t Persian Tales ;" a book full of fancy and imagination.—... | |
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