 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pàgines
...Poets are fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule " alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the " throne." But this is not the beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pàgines
...talent and each art to plt-afc. And born te write, converfe, and live with eafc : Should fuch a mail, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealou« eye«, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rile ; joo Damn with faint... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pàgines
...Kli.lt with each talent and each art to plcafe, And born to write, convcrfc, and live with cafe : • Should fuch a man. too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himlelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife,... | |
 | 1796 - 500 pàgines
...each talent and each art to please, io,5 And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes. And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 20* Damn with faint... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pàgines
...infpirel., Bleft with each talent and each art to pleaft, And born to write, converfe, and live witheafe; Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the T urk, no rival near the- throne, view him with fcornful, yet with lealous eyes, And hate for arts... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 pàgines
...Pope was in the midlt of his engagements on the fame fubjeft, and by a creature of Mr. Addifon's, made Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, Alike NOTES. made him fufpeft this to be another maft from the fame quiver : And after a diligent enquiry,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pàgines
...language. For a specimen in this way take these lines of Pope, Sect. III. Complete sentence*. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pàgines
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pàgines
...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, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pàgines
...Poets are fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, ** Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the beft of his little piecfcs : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
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And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne... 
