 | John Aikin - 1820 - Počet stránok 832
...born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to ndc alone, Bear, b'ke s design. Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ; Who knows,...but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves o caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 476
...prologues, Poets 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 466
...Poets 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1820 - Počet stránok 884
...enough. It was not exactly what it had been described by an honourable gentleman opposite. They did not Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Theirs was certainly no praise at all ; and as certainly, nothing like civility ; but, as to sneers,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - Počet stránok 388
...attract attention. " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like a Turk, no hrother near his throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise. Damn with faint praise, |[ assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Počet stránok 402
...inspires ; Blest 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,...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - Počet stránok 452
...: and what deserved praise he would not deny him to the world ; and, as a proof of this disposition Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Počet stránok 1062
...inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with y have rest, I go. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow v Thou, caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - 1824 - Počet stránok 686
...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen, friends and neighbours ; let us hear what he... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - Počet stránok 474
...inspires ; Bless'd 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 with... | |
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