 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
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...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...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools,... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope : " Should such a man, too fond to rale alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,...strike, Just hint a fault, |! and — hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, || by flatterers besieged, And so obliging I|... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 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 that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 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 that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born nt, When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars...roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the head caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1852 - 498 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...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts thai caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 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 as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And horn 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 timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1853 - 496 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...sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hmt a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious... | |
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