 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 Seiten
...sultans, if they had their will y " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy on Cowley. : ' His... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 Seiten
...of Atticus, delineated by Pope, is a very lively and forcible example of this figure. " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near his throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 Seiten
...are sultans, if they had their will ; For every author would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 Seiten
...sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk...no brother near the throne." But this is ,not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...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 jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 328 Seiten
...are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy on Cowley. His praise... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...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 jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...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 whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...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 jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn... | |
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike... 
