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" 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 818
edited by - 1877 - 934 pages
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...conspired together to commit a villainy, seems, to us, improbable in a tenfold degree." — MACAULAY. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone , Bear like...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...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eves, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn...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,...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 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,...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 314 pages
...True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And bom 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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, 195 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;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 I Damn with' faint praise, assent with civil leer, I And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 1

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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 e'en fools...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters, continued. 2d ...

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 504 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 ev'n fools,...
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Outlines of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1856 - 494 pages
...genius kindles, and tair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such...wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, nnd hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious friend...
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