 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pàgines
...the distressed, whose virtues are immortalised in the well-known couplet of Pope : — " Lct honest ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." As a mark of gratitude to these friends, and of homage to their virtues, Fielding professed to embody... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 300 pàgines
...never make a man respectable, useful, or happy. ; 22* XLI. THE WORKING-MAN'S GOOD WORKS. " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." POPE. IT is an unwilling tribute to moral principle, that even the most hardened of our race dislike... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 pàgines
...opulence and respectability, a circumstance alluded to by Pope in the Epilogue to his Satires : Let humble Allen with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope had originally styled him low-born Allen, but afterwards altered it as it now stands, not on the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 pàgines
...immortalized, both in the character of Allworthy, and in the celebrated couplet of Pope : — " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." His kindness to Fielding was, we believe, wholly unsolicited. He once sent him two hundred pounds anonymously,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pàgines
...of office, aud the spurns That putieut merit of the unworthy takes." Hamlet, iii. 1. t " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.'i Pope. Enis. to Sat. " Grand reservoirs of public happiness, Through secret streams diffusively... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pàgines
...simple quaker, or a quaker's wife k, Outdo Llandaff ' in doctrine, — yea in life : Let humble AILEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to Virtue, and to me ; Dwell in a monk, or... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 pàgines
...letters which had passed on this occasion were, as he desired, made public.f So great was * " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written " low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to " humble," — a proof... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 pàgines
...immortalized, both in the character of Allworthy, and in the celebrated couplet of Pope : — (CLet humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." His kindness to Fielding was, we believe, wholly unsolicited. He once sent him two hundred pounds anonymously,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 pàgines
...letters which had passed on this occasion were, as he desired, made public.f So great was * " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, " Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written "low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to " humble," — a proof... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 pàgines
...happened in the ensuing year. It was supposed at the time , though without foundation, * "Let humble Allen , with an awkward shame, "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Pope had at first written "low-born," but afterwards changed the epithet to "humble" — a proof that... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
