 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1908 - 450 pàgines
...literature endures Allen is secure in remembrance. Pope has enshrined his memory in the lines. " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 3!>?<)t>?<)C>?<)C>?«C>?<)C>?<)C>?<)C>?<)C>?^ It is true the poet later in life grew cold towards his... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 678 pàgines
...Tom Jones, the original of which, Ralph Allen of Bristol, is celebrated in Pope's lines: " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame." Alma, in Spenser's Faerie Queene, the Queen of Body Castle — the human soul. Almanzor, the hero of... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pàgines
...take ill—that he was a man of no high birth or quality. This " something " was the famous couplet : Let low-born Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. The exact title of the " Epilogue to the Satires " was " One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirtyeight... | |
 | 1910 - 740 pàgines
...unassumingly. This virtue of Allan was celebrated by Pope in the wellknown lines : Let humble Allan with an awkward shame Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Mr. Allan owed his enormous fortune entirely to his own unaided exertions, for he began life as a poor... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 607 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 30? Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 608 Pope : Epil. to Satires. Dialogue i. Line 135. There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1912 - 342 pàgines
...reference to his host in the dialogue which afterwards became the first ' Epilogue to the Satires : ' Let low-born ALLEN, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Allen's private views of this couplet are not on record. But, despite the admirable and antithetic... | |
 | Edward Stanley Roscoe - 1912 - 368 pàgines
...lived till 1764, is commemorated in Pope's verse, and one couplet has become proverbial : " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame." 1 Pope's " Works " (edited by Elwin & Ceurthope), vol. ii. p. 220 The friendship of Fielding and Allen... | |
 | John Francis Meehan - 1913 - 52 pàgines
...Jones," and who was at the same time so generous that his friend Pope wrote of him : — " Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Prominent in this group was the Rev. Richard Graves, of Claverton, author of the " Spiritual Quixote,"... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 pàgines
...fame. The character is drawn from Ralph Allen, the friend alike of Fielding and of Pope. Let bumble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. POPE: Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue 1, 136. Allen, however, was not so humble as not to object... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pàgines
...Odyssey, book xv. lin 83, with "parting" instead of "going." W. • Line 69. Line re. Line 110. POPE. ) good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Epilogue to the Satire». Dialogue i. Line 136. To Berkeley every virtue under heaven. Dialogue ii. Line 73 When the... | |
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Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 
