 Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; 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,...  Miscellanies... - Page 149by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...Addison regarding his scheme, Mr. Addison knew nothing of the similar project of Tickell, of Queen's — it was natural that Mr. Pope and his friends, having...Blest with each talent and each heart to please, And bom to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rale alone, Bear like the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...regarding his scheme, Mr. Addison knew nothing of the • similar project of Tickell, of Queen's — it was natural that Mr. Pope and his friends, having...Blest with each talent and each heart to please, And bom to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...regarding his scheme Addison knew nothing of the similar projects of Tickell's, — it was natural that Pope and his friends, having interests, passions,...opposition against Pope, and that they should call Tickell's emulation Addison's envy,' — 'if envy,' adds the same writer, 'it were.' The solution of... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...future. Pope was too indignant to be silent, and the verses which he sent to Addison are known to all : " And were there one whose fires True genius kindles,...fame inspires — 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... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 372 pages
...considering it was published after his death, is certainly very severe : — " Peace to all snch 1 but were there one whose fires, True genius kindles, and...fair fame inspires, 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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...154.1 125. CHARACTER OF ATTICCS (ADDISON). (From the Prologue to the Satires.) Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and...fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : 5 Should such a man, too fond to rule... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 pages
...Addison regarding his scheme, Mr. Addison knew nothing of the similar project of Tickell, of Queen's — it was natural that Mr. Pope and his friends, having...their own, should believe that Tickell's translation \vas but an act of opposition against Pope, and that they should call Mr. Tickell's emulation Mr. Addison's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...modest satire bade translate. And owned that nine such Poets made a Täte. Peace to all such ! but gold. Behind him rode two gallant squires Of noble...name and knightly sires ; Tliey burned the gilded spu art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule... | |
 | North American review - 1871 - 494 pages
...verses have become proverbial. This of Addison will bear reading again : — " Peace to all such ; but were there one whose fires True genius kindles and...fair fame inspires ; 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 450 pages
...verses have become proverbial. This of Addison will bear reading again : — " Peace to all such : but were there one whose fires True genius kindles and...fair fame inspires ; 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... | |
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