 A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there...  The Anonymous - Seite 2881810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 Seiten
...Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend !o learned ease, j Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's teinp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, 9 XL On Mr. Cay, in Westminster- Abhey, 17J2. OF manners gentle, of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 Seiten
...facred from the proud and great Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, e Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life,...regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, q Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. F 3 XL On i»» t XI. On... | |
 | 1796 - 500 Seiten
...Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, 5 Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly...look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, cr there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, 9 XI. Oil Mr. Gay, in H'ettmlnster-... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 Seiten
...Beleeve me, reader, can fay more, Than many a braver marble can, Here lies a truly boneji man. Ver. 7. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. The fame fentiment is found in Alartiafs Epigrams, x. 23. Prseteritosque dies, et totos refpicit annos... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1797 - 604 Seiten
...facred from the Proud an4 Great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; . . From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had lived, and that he dy'd. Jiffe&ing Story... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 712 Seiten
...facred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had lived, and that he dy'd. Affecting Story... | |
 | William Jackson - 1798 - 472 Seiten
...facred from the proud and great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; ' From nature's temperate feaft rofe Cuisfy'd, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd and that he dy'd. POPE. (Johnfon.}... | |
 | William Jackson - 1798 - 472 Seiten
...great : Foe to loud praife, and friend to learned eafe, Content with fcience in the vale of peace. t Calmly he look'd on either life; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd Keav'n that he had liv'd and that he dy'd. POPE. (Johnfon.}... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Ca!u, ly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy 'd, Thank'd heaven that he liv't), and char he dy'd» The The first cpuplet... | |
 | 1803 - 222 Seiten
...FEN-TON — At Easthamxted, in Berkshire, 1730. Thre modest stone, what few vain marbles can, M ay truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet blest...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thaiik'd heav'n that he had lived, and that he died. The first couplet... | |
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