 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,...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Page 818edited by - 1877 - 934 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...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...to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each heart to please, And bom to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such...without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing «o wound, and yet afraid. to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each heart to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such...leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; * "That Tickell should have been guilty of a villany seems to us highly improbable ; that Addison... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...heart to please, And bom to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rale alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne...leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; * "That Tickell should have been guilty of a villany seems to us highly improbable ; that Addison... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...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 alone, Bear like...; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 10 And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Poetry - 1912 - 304 pages
...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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts thnt caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1896 - 1040 pages
...True genius kindles and true fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; ])amn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering-, teach the rest to sneer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...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...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools,... | |
 | 張錯 - Literature - 2005 - 360 pages
...Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires; Bless，d with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A tim，rous foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools,... | |
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