 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 - Authors, English - 1858 - 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...one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame irnspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 266 pages
...lines 193, &c; in which Addison is described under the name of Atticus : — " 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 fund to rule... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 604 pages
...is curious that Pope should have laid to Addison's charge this very spirit of mole-eyed envy : "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... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore. REV. CHAS. WOLFE. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...Arbuthnot. which now forms the Prologue to the Satires. It is as follows : • "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 boru to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...Addition 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...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... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...pointed and piercing wit, and refined and delicate irony, these Hues are unsurpassed in any language : " And were there one whose fires True genius kindles...fame inspires, • Blest with each talent and each art to please, And bcjrn to write, converse, and live witli ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rale... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...whilst he made Addison feel what a dangerous antagonist he had to do with.* " 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... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Ireland - 1866 - 656 pages
...without believing that it must have touched upon some points of real soreness. " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...— it was natural that Mr. Pope and his friends, having interests, pensions, and prejudices of his own, should believe that Tickell's translation was...fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; * "That Tickell should have been guilty... | |
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