 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 - 1886 - 876 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...fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Bleat with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...led astray by profligacy, and virtue byfanaticism. POPE'S VENOMED SHAFT.1 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...a good deal of truth but more malignancy, and with all his over-exquisite sharpness of touch:— ' 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 - 1886 - 914 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...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... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe? And swear not Addison himself was safe. 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: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...reconcile their literary abilities with a life of all-round ease and attractiveness: Peace to all such! hut 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 ... " 11 Ibid. 14-15. 31 The three were... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear, not ADDISON himself was safe. 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 - 2007 - 298 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...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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