| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...been offered had never been refused.i6i Beside the general system of morality, supposed to be conSeen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a... | |
| James White - 1855 - 308 Seiten
...could not resist the temptatiou of a sarcasm at the characteristic tactics of the minister : — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power, — Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Idler - 1856 - 386 Seiten
...p. 737), of course, appends the well-known eulogy on Walpole in the Epilogue to the Satires : — " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power. Seen him, uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...* Go see SIB ROBERT — P. See SIR ROBERT ?— hum— And never laugh— for all my life to come ? Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumher'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| James White - 1858 - 304 Seiten
...poet could not resist the temptation of a sarcasm at the characteristic tactics of the minister:— " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power,— Seen him, uncnmber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...Go see Sir Robert * — P. See Sir Eobert !— hum — And never laugh — for all my life to come ; Seen him I have ; but in his happier hour Of social...tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find He does not think me what he thinks mankind. Come, come, at all... | |
| 1859 - 112 Seiten
...being one of the very few commoners in modern times who have ever been invested with the latter. " Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...sec SIR ROBEKT — P. See SIR ROBERT ! — hum ! — And never laugh — for all my life to conic? trung, And seized the quiver where it idly hung. Cursed be the f exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd" with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 Seiten
...conversation, hard drinking, were the features of every day's feast. Pope thus describes him : — ' Seen him, I have, but in his happier hour, Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...groat. Go see SIR ROBERT — P. See SIR RGBERT !— hum ! And never laugh — for all my life to come 'I Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power ; Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without... | |
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